Course Description
This course explores the factors that impact the health of individuals, communities, and populations at the local, national, and global levels. Issues including public health, environmental health, emerging infectious diseases, and chronic illness will be explored, while incorporating societal and cultural issues.
Course Learning Outcomes
Upon completion of the course, the student will be able to:
- Explain health and development within a global health context. (PLO)
- Demonstrate an understanding of global demographic and health determinants. (PLO)
- Identify global health challenges and issues. (PLO)
- Utilize the process of critical thinking to develop strategies for dealing with social and ethical dilemmas in delivering healthcare in low and middle resource settings. (PLO)
- Discuss the major communicable and noncommunicable disease burdens impacting global health. (PLO)
- Discuss programmatic approaches to specific global health issues. (PLO)
Welcome to Global and Community-Based Nursing
This subject introduces you to the foundational principles of epidemiology and the processes utilized to perform a health assessment on a community as “client.” Epidemiology is the study of the distribution and determinants of disease in populations. Today, public health science of epidemiology has made major contributions to the understanding of all possible factors that contribute to health and disease in all its forms. This understanding makes up the framework for the practice of nursing in public health. This topic will focus on basic epidemiological models that nurses use to assess the dimensions of health in a community. What do you already know about assessing aspects of health in a community setting? You will apply the nursing process steps of assessment, diagnosis, planning, implementation, and evaluation to a community. The Community Health Nurse’s assessment creates an understanding of the community at the individual, family, and group levels in order to solve identified problems. Tools that are utilized to study a community include Windshield Surveys, data from Healthy People 2030, data from sites such as City-Data.com, and local hospitals Community Assessments.
Welcome to Week 2
In this module, the topics covered are influences of healthcare delivery, and the global health challenges and issues.
STUDY MATERIAL:
WEEK 2 LECTURE http://www.cdc.gov/socialmedia/nationalpublichealthweek.html
As a community health nurse, advocacy and health promotion become two driving missions in your daily work. You will learn about the history of ethics and bioethics as it relates to nursing and public health. Please note the similarities between the ethical decision-making framework and the nursing process. You will understand key factors that go into different models of ethical decision-making and gain an appreciation for the role of the interdisciplinary team in this process.You will look at the different aspects of this role: how social media can be leveraged for both advocacy and health promotion; ethics and its impact on advocacy; supporting vulnerable populations; addressing global health issues as it relates to migrating populations and community health promotion strategies.
NATION PUBLIC HEALTH WEEK 2020: http://nphw.org/nphw-2020
Stanhope, M. & Lancaster, J. (2016). Public health nursing: Population-centered health care in the community. (9th ed.). Maryland Heights, MO: Elsevier. ISBN: 978-0323321532
- Ch 4: Perspectives in Global Health Care
- Ch 5: Economics of Health Care Delivery
- Ch 8: Public Health Policy
ASSIGNMENT
Create a succinct display of statistical data of your communities population, describe your population in narrative that correlates with the display, written in own words (do not cut and paste an article)
- Who are at greatest risk within your population?
- Why are they at greater risk?
- Do you see a global connection with your community to a larger global health concern? ( Example: Vaccinations for communicable diseases)
- What evidenced based solutions come to mind when thinking about mitigating those risks?
WRITER: please use my community of Santa Clarita CA for this assignment
