Women’s Health as a group aggregate
Allen Foucht
American Sentinel University

Women’s Health as a group aggregate
Community health nursing is crucial to providing communities with essential information about at risk populations and prevention strategies for them. Nurses employ the nursing process to aid in preventing unhealthy behaviors and diseases while promoting good health. The community includes individual people, families, women, men and seniors. The primary focus is prevention of disease and illness and promoting healthy practices in the community (Nies & McEwen, 2011). Past models of community and public health have started with issues that were focused around environmental hazards such as water and sewage issues (Nies & McEwen, 2011). Community health planning was dominated in the 1980’s and 90’s by political administrations (Nies & McEwen, 2011). Current trends now follow the Healthypeople 2020 (United States Department of Health and Human Services, 2012) which have outlined a 10 year period of national objectives to improve the lives of all Americans. This paper will focus on the aggregate group of women and the group’s health as a community. Although women and men share health problems, some affect women differently. One example is heart disease where women may experience different symptoms than men. Another example is breast cancer where 12 % of women are at risk of acquiring the disease as opposed to less than 1% of males (United States Department of Health and Human Services, 2012). Women also tend to be more prone to be affected or disabled due to chronic health issues such as arthritis (Nies & McEwen, 2011). Other conditions are exclusive to women like menopause and pregnancy. The Community Health Nurse (CHN) is part of the key infrastructure outlined by Healthypeople 2020 (United States Department of Health and Human