COMMUNITY HEALTH NURSING EXAMINATION
[2025/2026] PROFESSIONAL THEORY AND COMMUNITY
PRACTICE ASSESSMENT
Primary Health Care, Health Promotion, Disease Prevention, and
Community-Based Nursing Practice
Public Health 3 components
assessment (needs)
assurance (resources)
policy (intervention)
PH is prevention and promotion of population health at the
federal and state level
A public service announcement is an example of
nursing intervention
Community health focuses on which type of issues
sociocultural issues
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, example: food bank at local church (serves health and social needs at the community level and
is privately funded)
Four important aspects of community
people
place
interactions
commonalities
Population vs. Aggregate
Population- group of people with common personal or environmental characteristics
ALL elders in a community
Aggregate- subgroup of people within a population
PREGNANT teenagers within a school district
Goals of Healthy People 2020
Focus on achieving health among community
20% smoking
50% premature death
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[2025/2026] PROFESSIONAL THEORY AND COMMUNITY
PRACTICE ASSESSMENT
Primary Health Care, Health Promotion, Disease Prevention, and
Community-Based Nursing Practice
Public Health 3 components
assessment (needs)
assurance (resources)
policy (intervention)
PH is prevention and promotion of population health at the
federal and state level
A public service announcement is an example of
nursing intervention
Community health focuses on which type of issues
sociocultural issues
1|Page
, example: food bank at local church (serves health and social needs at the community level and
is privately funded)
Four important aspects of community
people
place
interactions
commonalities
Population vs. Aggregate
Population- group of people with common personal or environmental characteristics
ALL elders in a community
Aggregate- subgroup of people within a population
PREGNANT teenagers within a school district
Goals of Healthy People 2020
Focus on achieving health among community
20% smoking
50% premature death
2|Page
