Public health Nursing of International Institute of Health Sciences

1. Bsc. Nursing studies
the scope of public health
course work 1
Presented by group positive vibes
• K A P M kapurubandara
• W A D P Darshani
• Sathya
• Perera
• Awanthika Madhushani Wewala Panditha

2. Objectives Of The Course Work
• To identify the health problems and risk factors in the
specific community and prioritize and evaluate the main
health issues.
• To plan necessary intervention for identified health problems
and evaluate the outcome.
• To maintain good inter- personal relationship with other
professionals and people in the community to identify health
problems and find solutions for specific problem

3. Introduction Of The Community
• Colombo is the capital city of sri lanka
• Colombo district is situated in western province
• There are 15 sub administrative areas in Colombo district
• Colombo district has largest population in country

4. Demographic Information
• Population distribution of the Colombo district is 2 309 809
• Male female sex ratio
male – 1 140 472
female – 1 183 877
• Population density is 3438 person / km2
• Household population is 572 475

5. Religions In The Colombo District
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400000
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800000
1000000
1200000
1400000
1600000
1800000
buddhist islam hindu roman catholic other christians others
religion Column2

6. Ethnicity
0
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400000
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1000000
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1800000
2000000
sinhalies muslims sl tamil indian tamil burgher malay sl chetty bharatha others

7. Educational status
• Picture ekak danna

8. • Educational zone - 04
• Educational divisions - 14
• Government schools - 399
• National schools - 37
• Provincial schools - 362
• Private schools -
• Universities -

9. Literacy

10. Education status cont…
• Category of educational attainment by gender ( aged 3-24 years )
0
10000
20000
30000
40000
50000
60000
preschool school educational undergraduate vocational training other educational
activity
not studying
male female

11. • Highest level of education achieved by gender
0
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20000
30000
40000
50000
60000
70000
primary secondary 6-10 GCE OL GCE AL degree and above no schooling
male female

12. Leisure Facilities
• Independent square park
• Galle face
• Vihara maha devi park
• Excel world
• Arcade independence square
• Dehivala zoo
• Water world

13. Health care services
• Hospitals
teaching hospitals - 07
base hospitals - 04
divisional hospitals - 09
Ayurvedic hospitals -
private hospitals -
• MOH divisons - 16
• PHI divisions - 98
• Midwives divisions - 436

14. Health status
• Birth rate – 15.7 /1000 population
• Mortality rate - 6.7 /1000 population
• Neaonatal death rates
• Maternal mortality rate
• Maternal malnutrition

15. Employment status
• Employment rate
agriculture - 5.2
industries - 32.4
services - 62.4
agriculture industries services

16. Socio economic status
• source of drinking water
total household - 572 475
protected well within premises - 123 735
protected well within outside premises - 11 188
unprotected well - 1951
piped born water - 416 857
rural water project - 12 728

17. • Types of cooking fuel
household using firewood - 55 %
household using gas - 40.3%
• Types of lighting
household using electricity - 63.6%
household using kerosene - 34.6 %

18. • Toilet facilities
total household - 572 475
exclusively - 509 447
shared - 43 101
common - 16 603
others - 325

19. Identified health problem
• Mental health problem
increasing depression
high suicidal rates
poisoning
• Physiological problems
smoking
communicable disease and non communicable disease
disabilities

20. • Socio – economic problems
increasing rate of illicit drugs abuse
overcrowded
Waste disposal problem
malnutrition
child abuse
unemployment
poor sanitary facilities
gender base violence
lack of safe drinking water

21. Prioritized health problem
Increasing illicit drugs and substance abuse
• Illicit drugs and substance
• Illicit drugs and substance abuse

22. Illicit drugs related arrest in western
province
5024
5204
2076
4635
2133
1574
COLOMBO GAMPAHA KALUTHARA
heroin canabies

23. According to above chart, the total number of drug related arrest are
highest in Colombo district. It is 10330 of arrests.

24. Prevalence of illicit drug abuse
• World prevalence
29.5 million people are suffering from illicit drugs and substance
abuse
• In sri lanka
according to national drugs control board ,currently 45000 regular users of
heroin and 600 000 users of cannabis are reported in sri lanka.
• In Colombo district
Cannabis 2.98 %
Heroin 2.29%
Pharmaceutical tablets 0.42 %
1%
99%
0%
cannabis heroin pharmaceuitical tablets