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Chapter 2
Community and Population Health: Assessment and Intervention

Communities and Population

  • Community as patient
  • Community and population
  • Define boundaries
  • Differences
  • Community-focused intervention
  • Interaction

Health of Communities and Populations

  • Healthy communities
  • Status
  • Structure
  • Process
  • Community competency
  • Individual competency

Health of Communities and Populations (cont.)

  • World health Organization (WHO)
  • Healthy Cities
  • Essentials skills for BSN nurse
  • Population assessment
  • Population-level interventions
  • Community assessments

Community Assessment Frameworks

  • WHO
  • Community empowerment
  • Community as Partner Model
  • Community core
  • Eight interacting community subsystems
  • Community stressors/boundaries
  • Normal level of defense
  • Flexible line of defense
  • Lines of resistance

Community Assessment Frameworks (cont.)

  • General Systems Model for Community Assessment and Intervention
  • Interacting subsystems
  • Suprasystem
  • Target system and boundaries
  • Community process

Using the Nursing Process for the Community

  • Conducting a community assessment
  • Population assessment
  • Primary informants
  • Gaining entry into the community
  • Kauffman’s five phases
  • Impressing
  • Behaving
  • Swapping
  • Belonging
  • Chilling out

Using the Nursing Process for the Community (cont.)

  • Collecting data
  • Seven methods
  • Informant interviews
  • Observation
  • Secondary analysis of existing data
  • Constructed surveys
  • Focus groups
  • Community forums
  • Windshield surveys

Using the Nursing Process for the Community (cont.)

  • Community diagnosis
  • Risk of
  • Among
  • Related to
  • Planning and prioritization phase
  • Priorities established
  • Goals and objectives identified
  • Community-focused interventions

Using the Nursing Process for the Community (cont.)

  • Implementation phase
  • Action phase
  • Role of community health nurse
  • Social change and community action
  • Lay advisors
  • Focus groups
  • Policy legislation
  • Mass media
  • Media advocacy
  • Education

Using the Nursing Process for the Community (cont.)

  • Evaluation
  • Formative evaluation
  • Summative evaluation