The document outlines the objectives and responsibilities of community health and community health nursing, emphasizing the importance of preventive, curative, and promotional services for the health of community members. It defines community health nursing as providing health services based on the needs of individuals and communities, with a philosophy rooted in the belief that health is a fundamental human right. Key goals include improving overall health standards, increasing life expectancy, and facilitating health education and evaluation.

1. Community Health

2. Objective
 Student will be able to :
 A) define community health.
 B) list down the responsibility for community health
 C)define community health nursing.
 D)expand RAIOE.
 E)List down the philosophy of community health nursing.
 F)list down goal and objective of community health
nursing.
 G)List down and explain principles of community health
nursing.

3.  In totality ,community health means the state of
health of the members of community, problem
affecting their health and health care available in
community .
 Community health is related with
 Preventive
 Curative
 Promotional services and it focus is health problems
of community .

5. It was known as before as
Today a new term

6. It is essential to pay attention to the following for the
success and completion of CHS.

7.  COMMUNITY DIAGNOSIS: is related to type of
disease, various facts, collection of data, health
problems and need of the society .
 COMMUNITY TREATMENT: aims to fulfil the
health related needs of society with available
resources. also known as community health
action.eg.improvement of water supply, health
education, immunization.

8. Responsibilities for community health
Individua
l
Communi
ty
Nation or
government
Internatio
nal agency

9. INDIVIDUAL RESPONSIBILITY
 Self-care being responsible.

10. COMMUNITY RESPONSIBILITY
 Manpower,facilities,moral agreement and funds
 Participate in planning,implementing,managing and
evaluation of health program.
 Max. Utilization of health services by the
community.
 Understand the fact of HP solely is not responsible.

11. NATION RESPONSIBILITY
 It’s responsibility of the nation or government of a
particular country for its public health.

12. INTERNATIONAL AGENCIES RESPONSIBILITY
 WHO is the body which regulates the health system
of countries.

13. COMMUNITY HEALTH NURSING
 Based on the principle of general nursing.
 It means providing health services to patient and
healthy people in community.
 Hafden mailer-director of WHO.
 BASIC ELEMENT OF CHN IS EXPANSION OF PC
OF HEALTH AND FAITH OF PTs IN NURSE.

14. RAIOE
RECOGN
ITION
ASSESS
MENT
INTERV
ENTION
ORGANI
ZATION

15. LOGICAL THINKING AND SCIENTIFIC
METHOD
GOVERNED BY CODE OF ETHICS
COMMITTED TO BELIEVE TO ITS OWN
BELIEFS AND PROFESSIONAL
PRACTICES

17. PHILOSOPHY OF COMMUNITY HEALTH
NURSING PRACTICE
 CHN believes that health is a fundamental right of human
and integral part of growth and development.
 It supports the entire community ,as well as individual,
families and focus on CHNP.
 Health promotion and primary prevention is major part.
 Identifies the need of holistic care approach
 Community based-efforts and involvement is essential.
 Honours the culture and social differences and provide HC.
 Multidisciplinary team activities is essential
 Overall development and well being of
individual ,family ,community and nation

21. Goal and objective of CHN
 Is to help the individual, families and community in
attaining highest standard of health by means of
prevention of illness and promotion of health.
 Increase life expectancy
 Decrease IMR and MMR and other morbidities.
 To prevent disabilities ,providing rehab services.
 To provide health care services
 Find cause-effect relationship.
 Evaluated health programmers'.
 Make community diagnosis, provide referral units.

22. Principles of Community Health Nursing.
 Health services-needs of individual and community.
Health programmers should be based on solution of
Health problem. Nurse should have good knowledge.
 HS should be in budget ;workers and resource.
 Family should be recognized as a unit, and HS
should be provided to its member.
 HS should be equally available without any
discrimination.
 Health education is important-preplanned, suitable
to condition, scientific true and effective.

23.  CHN should be provided continous,without interruption,
taking care and follow up.
 Preparation and maintenance of records and reports
 Nurses should be guided and supervised by highly
educated and skilled nurses.
 be alert and devoted, not accept gift money, in-service
education, professional development, apolitical ,not
religious based. Follow professional ethics. Job satisfaction
 Effective team spirit.
 Arrangement should be made for the timely evaluation of
service provided by CHN.

27.  Thank you