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Evolution of Community and Public Health Nursing

Identify a minimum of 3 major events (or influences) in the evolution of community and public health nursing and describe how each event led to advancement of the field. For each event, describe the following:

Key health issues at the time
Perspectives and goals of community and public health nursing
Roles and functions of community and public health nursing
Community and public health partnerships at the time

|Event or Influence: America’s Colonial Period and the New Republic |
|Key health issues |Communicable diseases, environmental hazards, environmental sanitation, concerns for the health and care of |
| |the people in the community |
|Perspective/goals |The goal was how to prevent, understand, and control diseases |
|Role/functions |In 1847, the American Medical Association (AMA) formed a hygiene committee to conduct sanitary surveys and to|
| |develop a system to collect vital statistics. (Stanhope & Lancaster, 2012, p 25). |
|Health partnerships |The Howard Association of New Orleans, Louisiana, responded to periodic yellow fever epidemics between 1837 |
| |and 1878 by providing physicians, lay nurses, and medicine. (Stanhope & Lancaster, 2012, p 25). |
|How did this event (or influence) advance community and public health nursing? |
|This event established state health departmenst and local health boards in every town