Packed with real-life examples and the latest information in the field, this award-winning book helps students develop the knowledge and skills needed to develop true partnerships with communities. Using their renowned Community As Partner Model to illustrate how the community, environment, health, and nursing intertwine, the authors take students through the entire nursing process with a real-life community as an example. Retaining the features that have made the book a classic around the world, this edition offers a foundational overview of the concepts of epidemiology, environment, culture, ethics, empowerment, health policy, informatics, bioterrorism, and emerging infectious diseases as they relate to community health, while enhancing coverage of timely topics, such as Participatory Research and the latest on the Affordable Care Act.

The world as community: globalization and health -- Community health nursing: Essentials of practice -- Epidemiology, demography, and community health -- Environment and the health of communities -- Ethical quandaries in community health nursing -- Community empowerment -- Cultural competence: Discussion and tools for action -- Partnering with communities for healthy public policy -- Informatics and community health nursing -- Preventing and managing community emergencies: Disasters and infectious diseases -- Community assessment: Using a model for practice -- Community analysis and nursing diagnosis -- Planning a community health program -- Implementing a community health program -- Evaluating a community health program -- Promoting healthy partnerships with school communities -- Promoting healthy partnerships with faith communities -- Promoting healthy partnerships with marginalized groups -- Promoting healthy partnerships in the workplace -- Promoting healthy partnerships with community elders -- Promoting healthy partnerships with rural communities.