Community Health is a identification of needs and the protection and improvement of collective health within the geographic defined area.

1. Community
Health
Nursing
Dr. Rahul B. Pandit
Faculty of Nursing
Sassoon General Hospital, Pune
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4. Community
A group of people living in the same place
or having a particular characteristic in
common.
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5. Community
A community is a social group having following
characteristics –
 Determined by geographical boundaries
 Common values and interests
 Its members know and interact with each other
 It functions within a particular social structure
and exhibits and creates certain norms, values
and social institutions
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6. Community
Community is system composed of individual
member and sector that have a variety of distinct
characteristics and inter relationship. They can be
defined by the characteristics of its people,
geographic boundaries, shared values, interest
and power dynamics.
- CDC
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11. Health
The world health organization (WHO)
defines health as …..
“ state of complete physical, mental, social and
Spiritual well-being , not merely the absence of
disease or infirmity.”
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12. Nursing
Nursing is the diagnosis and treatment of human
response to actual and potential health problem.
American Nurses Association
Nursing is to put the patient in the best condition for
nature to act upon him, primarily by altering the
environment.
Florence Nightingale
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13. Nursing Objectives
1. Preventing illness.
2. Promoting health.
3. Maintaining health.
4. Providing comprehensive care
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14. Community Health
Community Health is a identification of needs
and the protection and improvement of
collective health within the geographic
defined area.
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15. Element of Community
 A sense of membership
 Common symbol system
 Common values
 Common need
 Reciprocal influence
 Shared History
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16. Healthy Community
1. Collaborate effectively in identifying need of
the community.
2. Working consensus on goal
3. Implement intervention
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17. Feature of Communities
 Location
 Population
 Social System
Location
Social
System
Population
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18. Factor affecting community Health
Physical
Factor
Industrialization
Social
Factor
Cultural
Factor
Community
Organization
Individual
behavior
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19. Physical Factor
 Geography
 Environment
 Community size
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20. Industrialization
 Positive and negative effect
 Work for people
 Pollution
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21. Social and Cultural factor
 Culture
 Belief
 Economy
 Politics
 Social norms
 Socio-economic status
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22. Community organization
 Resources
 Cost Effectiveness
 Increase productivity
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23. Individual Behavior
 Active participation of each
individual of community towards
the contribute to the health status.
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24. Community Health Nursing
Community Health Nursing is a
synthesis of nursing practices and
public Health practices applied to
promoting health and preventing
illness.
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25. Focus
 Health Promotion
 Prevention of illness
 Health Maintenance
 Health Education
 Continuity of care
 Management
 Coordination
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26. Concept of CHN
 Community health nursing identifies the need
of holistic care approach.
 Community health nursing support that
community based efforts and involvement is
essential for the risk reduction.
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27. Concept of CHN
 It realizes that health promotion and primary
prevention are major activities in community
health nursing practice.
 It supports the entire community as well as
individual, families and aggregates is a focus
for community health nursing practice.
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28. Concept of CHN
 It believes in overall development and well-
being of individuals, families, communities
and nation.
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29. Objectives of CHN
 To assess the need and priorities of vulnerable
group like pregnant mother, children and old
age persons.
 To provide health care services at every level
of community.
 To make community diagnosis.
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30. Objectives of CHN
 To evaluate the health programme and make
further plans.
 To prevent disabilities and providing
rehabilitation services.
 To provide referral services at various health
care levels.
 To increase life expectancy.
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31. Objectives of CHN
 To enhance the standard of nursing profession
through –
1. Conducting nursing research
2. Provide quality assurance in community
health nursing
3. Performing the role of nurse
epidemiologist
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32. Scope of CHN
 Rural areas and slums of cities
 Special clinics
 Mobile camps
 Health centers
 Schools
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33. Scope of CHN
 Industrial organizations
 Outdoor patient departments of big hospitals
 Fairs and other places of social functions/
gathering
 Rural and poor urban families etc.
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34. Characteristics of CHN
 Field of Nursing
 Combine public Health and Nursing
 Population focused
 Emphasize on prevention, promotion and
wellness
 Self care
 Inter professional collaboration
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35. Principles of CHN
 Promote, protect, preserve the health and
prevent the illness.
 Health services should be based on the needs
of individuals and the community.
 Health services should be suitable to the
budget; workers and the resources.
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36. Principles of CHN
 Family should be recognized as a unit and the
health services should be provided to its
members.
 Health services should be equally available to
all without any discrimination of age, sex,
caste. Religion, political leaning and social or
economic level etc.
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37. Principles of CHN
 Health education is an important part of
community health nursing. It should be
preplanned, suitable to conditions,
scientifically true and effective.
 Community health nursing should be provided
continuously, without any interruption.
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38. Principles of CHN
 Preparation and maintenance of records and
reports is very important in community health
nursing.
 Community health nurses and other health
workers should be guided and supervised by
highly educated and skilled professionals.
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39. Tools of Community Health Nurse
 Communication
 Collaboration
 Contracting
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