NRS 427V Community Health, Geopolitics and Social Determinants of Health

NRS 427V Community Health, Geopolitics and Social Determinants of Health

NRS 427V Community Health, Geopolitics and Social Determinants of Health

NRS 427V Week 1 DQ1

What is your idea of a healthy community? Provide specific examples. What do healthy communities have in common? How would you provide care for a community if your idea of a healthy community does not match your community’s definition of a healthy community?

NRS 427V Week 1 DQ2

Consider the different communities to which you belong:

What is the geopolitical community in you live? Why is it geopolitical?
What is a phenomenological community to which you belong? Why is it a phenomenological community?

What would some challenges and benefits be for community health nurses in providing care for different communities? For similar communities? For the same community? What are some possible solutions to the challenges?

NRS 427V Week 2 DQ1

What are social determinants of health? How do social determinants of health contribute to the development of illness? What is a communicable disease chain? Are there steps that a nurse can take to break a link within the communicable disease chain? Give a specific example.

Readings within your text covering international/global health and the following websites will assist you in answering these questions:

U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Global Health website: http://www.cdc.gov/cogh/index.htm

U.S. Department of Health & Human Services (HHS) Global Health website: http://www.globalhealth.gov/index.html

Families USA – Why Global Health Matters—Here and Abroad website: http://www.familiesusa.org/
World Health Organization (WHO) website: http://www.who.int

Assignment Details

For this Assignment, you are going to write an article for a journal explaining how you developed your theory through the four stages (theorizing, syntax, theory testing, and evaluation). Your paper must be 3 to 5 pages, not including the title and reference pages.

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Assignment Requirements

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• Minimum requirement of at least 5 sources of support
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• utilize spelling and grammar check to minimize errors.