Comprehensive Community Health Nursing (Paperback)

Key Features
* The text is an integration of first aid and small ailment treatment, home nursing, nutrition, environment, maternal and child health, communicable diseases control, school health, health information services, mobile health services, domiciliary health services, rural occupational health, etc.

* It also deals with many useful topics on changing face of the youth, youth towards tomorrow, youth self discovery, old age, facing death courageously, palliative care, common infectious diseases, complimentary medicines, nutrition, supplementary food, all-round development and education, women's health, skills and people's day-to-day living and much more; as you turn every chapter, there is something for all.

Table of Contents
1. Rural and Urban Sociocultural Community
Plight/socioeconomic condition
2. Family: The Center of Community
3. Integral Development of the Rural Community
4. Community Building
5. Community Welfare
6. People Awakening
7. Comprehensive Health Care
8. Community Based Health Worker
9. Indigenous Alternative System of Medicines
10. Women?s Health and Development
Empowering women for capacity building
Impact of women?s lack of education and misconceptions
11. Our Environment?Global Warming and Climate Change
12. Disaster Management: The New Challenge
Initial first aid for natural calamities
When the calamity sticks
Responsibilities of health workers
Health
Build people
13. Comprehensive Community Based Nourishment
Change pattern of food consumption
Child malnourishment
Mid-day school meal
Nutritional problem
Vicious circle
Iodine deficiency
Child habits
Micronutrient
Food surrounding place
Qualities of food
Overnutrition
Economic condition of the poor
Nutritional status
Public services
14. Youth: In the Community
15. Malaria: A Community Health Problem
Presumptive treatment for malaria
Conclusion
16. Lymphatic Filariasis: Public Health Problem
17. Deadly Disease: Tuberculosis
18. Sexually Transmitted Diseases : STDs
19. AIDS: Growing Threat to Public Health
What is the difference between HIV and AIDS?
How HIV spreads?
How HIV does not spread?
How can one know if he is infected with HIV?
What should you do if found HIV positive?
Is there a test to detect HIV?
Prevention
Medical management of HIV/AIDS cases
Home based care
Protection of the care provider
Care of the dead body
What is antiretroviral therapy (ART)?
The benefit of taking regularly medicines: How do anti-HIV medicines work?
How does the virus spread?
Counseling can make a world of difference
Factors having negative impact on adherence
Interventions to educate and explain adherence (to stick, to cling, state of clinging)
Aims of pretest counseling
Aims of post-HIV test counseling
20. Leprosy: National Health Problem
21. Tetanus: The Rural Health Problem
22. Rabies: The Fatal Disease
23. Snake Bite: Common Problem in Rural Villages (some amazing facts)
24. Accidents: Human Errors
25. Gastrointestinal Disorders that Affect Rural
(Food poisoning; diarrhea, dysentery, amebiasis; worm infestation; appendicitis)
Appendicitis
Amebiasis
26. Living Well with Diabetes
Nursing role in management of diabetes
27. Healthy Heart
Cues to cardiovascular problems
What level the pressure should be labeled as hypertension?
Why is high blood pressure dangerous?
28. Obesity: Increasing Rate of Public Health Problem
29. Prevention and Early Diagnosis of Cancer
Causes of cancer
30. Terminal Illness and Palliative Care
31. What Makes a Person Grow Old?
32. Death: The Unknown Path
Index