Part one: Perspectives in health care delivery and community and public health nursing -- Community-oriented population-focused practice: the foundation of specialization in public health nursing -- History of public health and public and community health nursing -- Public health and primary health care systems and health care transformation -- Perspectives on international health care -- Part Two: Influences on health care delivery and community-oriented nursing -- Economics of health care delivery -- Ethics in community-oriented nursing practice -- Cultural diversity and comunity-oriented nursing practice -- Environmental health -- Policy,politics,and the law -- Part Three : Conceptual frameworks applied to community-oriented nursing practice -- Organizing frameworks applied to community health nursing -- Epidemiologic applications -- Research applications -- Educational theories,models,and principles applied to community and public health nursing -- Community health promotion : an integrative model for practice -- Part Four : Issues and approaches in community-oriented health care -- Community as client:using the nursing process to promote health -- Community and public health nursing in rural environments -- Health promotion through healthy cities -- The nursing center:a model for community health nursing practice -- Case management --Disaster management -- Program management -- Quality management -- Group approaches in community health -- Part five: Issues and approaches in family and individual health care -- Family development and family nursing assessment -- Family health risks -- Child and adolescent health -- Women's health -- Men's health -- Elder health -- The physically compromised -- Part Six: Vulnerability: community-oriented nursing issues for the twenty-first century -- Vulnetability and vulnerable populations:an overview -- Poverty and homelessness -- Teen pregnacy -- Migrant health issues -- Teen pregnancy -- Migrant health issues -- Mental health issues -- Alcohol,tobacco,and other drug problems in the community -- Violence nad human abuse -- Communicable disease risk and prevention -- Human immunodeficiency virus,hepatitis b virus,and sexually transmitted diseases -- Part Seven : Community and public health nurses: roles and functions -- Community health nurse in home health and hospice -- The advanced practice nurse in the community -- Public and community health nurse manager and consultant -- Community health nurse in the schools -- Community health nurse in occupational health -- Community health nurse as parish nurse and block nurse -- Public health nursing in the local health department

1. Community health nursing