Population and Community Health Nursing

Mary Jo Clark, PhD, RN, PHN, has been practicing and teaching population health nursing for 50 years. After completing her BSN degree at the University of San Francisco, she received her introduction to global population health nursing as a U.S. Peace Corps Volunteer in Vita, India, a rural town with a population of about 3,000. Returning to the United States, Dr. Clark employed her cross-cultural expertise as a Public Health Nurse in the Los Angeles County Department of Health Services. In 1973, she became a pediatric nurse practitioner, and later began teaching population health nursing at East Tennessee State University. She completed a master’s degree as a community health clinical nurse specialist at Texas Women’s University and a PhD in nursing at the University of Texas at Austin. Moving with her army nurse husband to Augusta, Georgia, she taught graduate and undergraduate population health at the Medical College of Georgia. For the past 29 years, Dr. Clark has taught at baccalaureate, master’s, and doctoral levels at the University of San Diego, Hahn School of Nursing and Health Science. In addition to her full-time teaching and writing, Dr. Clark has maintained an active population health nursing practice. She is well known in the population health nursing field and has provided consultation and made presentations across the country and overseas. Her many and varied experiences in population health nursing in the United States and abroad form the core of the material presented in this book.

• Unit 1 Population Health Nursing: An OverviewChapter 1 Population Health and NursingChapter 2 Population Health Nursing: Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow Chapter 3 Epidemiology and Population Health NursingUnit 2 Influences on Population HealthChapter 4 Environmental Influences on Population HealthChapter 5 Cultural Influences on Population HealthChapter 6 Economic Influences on Population Health Chapter 7 Health System Influences on Population HealthChapter 8 Global Influences on Population HealthUnit 3 Population Health Nursing StrategiesChapter 9 Political StrategiesChapter 10 Community Empowerment StrategiesChapter 11 Health Promotion and Education StrategiesChapter 12 Case Management StrategiesChapter 13 Home Visits as a Population Health Nursing StrategyUnit 4 Nursing Care of Special PopulationsChapter 14 Care of FamiliesChapter 15 Care of Communities and Target PopulationsChapter 16 Care of Child and Adolescent PopulationsChapter 17 Care of MenChapter 18 Care of WomenChapter 19 Care of the Older PopulationChapter 20 Care of Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender PopulationsChapter 21 Care of Poor and Homeless PopulationsChapter 22 Care of School PopulationsChapter 23 Care of Employee PopulationsChapter 24 Care of Correctional PopulationChapter 25 Care of Populations Affected by Disaster