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Public Health Nursing
concentrates on a broad set of issues affecting personal and environmental
health, including federal and state funding for health programs, pollution
control, programs and policies related to chronic and infectious diseases,
a smoke-free society, and professional education in public health.
Each county offers specific programs in communicable disease control
and prevention, health promotion and chronic disease prevention, environmental
health, maternal, child and adolescent health, disaster preparedness,
health surveillance and data, and public health practice that are
relevant to the given community. Below are a sample of the various
topics covered in PHN:
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