Epidemiology
Epidemiology Kathleen Burks I. Epidemiologic Process A. Goals: The goals of epidemiologic studies are to discover the causes of disease, detect and quantify risk factors, increase understanding of carcinogenesis, and…
Carcinogenesis
Carcinogenesis Barbara G. Lubejko I. Carcinogenesis A. Carcinogenesis is the process by which normal cells are transformed into malignant cells. B. Evidence indicates that an individual cancer arises from a…
Conversation About Primary Health Care
Conversation About Primary Health Care Marie Truglio-Londrigan Joanne Singleton Sandra B. Lewenson Liliana Lopez It is true that in the future as in the past, the course nursing takes will…
Nursing Education and Public Health Nursing
Nursing Education and Public Health Nursing Cathleen M. Shultz Karen Kelley By 1950, more than 17 years would have been added to the average span of American life…. It could…
Emergency Preparedness in the 21st Century: Two Post-9/11 Case Studies
Emergency Preparedness in the 21st Century: Two Post-9/11 Case Studies Lucille Ferrara Keith Veltri Michela Catalano The most important aspect of disaster care is pre-disaster planning by the responsible community…
Historical Highlights in Disaster Nursing
Historical Highlights in Disaster Nursing Barbara Mann Wall Arlene Keeling Out into pitchy darkness, leaped three men and seven women from a puffing, unsteady train, no physician with them, and…
Protecting, Sustaining, and Empowering: A Historical Perspective on the Control of Epidemics
Protecting, Sustaining, and Empowering: A Historical Perspective on the Control of Epidemics Christine E. Hallett Does not the popular idea of “infection” involve that people should take greater care of…
Getting the Word Out: Advocacy, Social Marketing, and Policy Development and Enforcement
Getting the Word Out: Advocacy, Social Marketing, and Policy Development and Enforcement Susan Moscou If people knew things—and “things” meant everything implied in the condition of this family—such horrors would…
Working Together: Collaboration, Coalition Building, and Community Organizing
Working Together: Collaboration, Coalition Building, and Community Organizing Adrienne Wald Public health nursing, being closely related to the activities of several other professions and many community organizations, cannot be carried…
