PPN 302 WK 1- Introduction to Community Health Nursing

Vocabulary flashcards reviewing core definitions, frameworks, and practice standards for Community Health Nursing (PPN 302 Class 1).

What is at the root of difference

Social Injustice

Health Disparity

Differences in health status across population groups, often associated with factors such as race, poverty, social class, and gender.

Health (WHO, 1948)

A state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity.

Health (WHO, 1986)

A positive concept emphasizing social and personal resources, as well as physical capacities; described as a resource for everyday life, not the objective of living.

Health (WHO, 1992)

A state that depends on our ability to understand and manage the interaction between humans and their environment.

Biomedical Approach

An individual-level health framework focused on diseases and chronic conditions (e.g., cancer, HIV, heart disease, diabetes, hypertension) addressed through medications, surgeries, rehabilitation, therapies, and screening.

Behavioural Approach

An individual/group-level health framework focused on lifestyle factors (e.g., smoking, diet, drug use, unsafe sex, stress) addressed through education, resources, social marketing, and supportive public policies.

Socio-environmental Approach

A community/society-level health framework addressing systemic issues (e.g., poverty, stressful environments, trauma, unemployment, social/racial injustice, social isolation) through political/economic policy, welfare state development, advocacy, and empowerment.

Harm Reduction Approach

An individual-level health strategy that seeks to lower risks associated with high-risk behaviors (e.g., using unclean needles, drug overuse, unsafe sex) by providing interventions like methadone, clean needles, and condom distribution.

Health Equity

The fair distribution of resources and opportunities based on individual and group needs, rather than identical or equal distribution.

Health Equality

Providing the exact same supports to everyone under the assumption that all individuals benefit equally from identical treatment.

Health Justice

The systemic removal of underlying barriers and social injustices so that all individuals can achieve health without requiring extra supports or accommodations.

Critical Social Theory Lens

An analytical framework that examines power dynamics, questions the status quo, unpacks taken-for-granted assumptions, and considers how history, economics, and politics shape social conditions.

Upstream Analysis

An approach in community health that focuses on identifying and modifying the root causes and social determinants of health outcomes rather than just treating immediate symptoms.

Micro Level Perspective

A practice perspective focused on the individual, family, and/or neighborhood contexts.

Meso Level Perspective

A practice perspective focused on neighborhood, group, and institutional contexts.

Macro Level Perspective

A practice perspective focused on broader social, political, economic, and historical contexts.

Building Community Capacity

A Community Health Nursing standard focused on strengths, involving clients in care planning, and practicing 'doing with' rather than 'doing for' to foster empowerment.

Community

A dynamic group of people who live, work, and play in an environment at a given time, bound by physical space, common interests, shared vulnerabilities, or social ties.

Healthy Community

A community defined by a clean and safe environment, social justice, equity, access to basic resources (food, shelter, income, safety), learning opportunities, strong relationships, and active resident participation.

Community Health Nursing Standards

Practice guidelines for CHNs comprising five key areas: Promoting health, Building community capacity, Building relationships, Facilitating access and equity, and Demonstrating professional responsibility and accountability.

Guiding Principles of CHN

These includes community participation, partnership, doing with-versus Doing for, and a focus on strengths

Promoting Health

Involves strategies that promote, protect and preserve health.
Addressing health disparities and inequalities
Promoting health is a partnership
Incorporate the lived experience of the community
Caring for the total human being