Social Determinants of Dealth
This key social determinant is linked to better health outcomes, higher income, and improved access to healthcare—starting with school and lasting a lifetime.
What is Education
Differences in the health status of individuals and groups
What is Health inequality?
A process that enables people to increase control over their own health.
What is health promotion?
This approach to health focuses on preventing illness by addressing root causes—like poverty and housing—rather than just treating symptoms downstream.
What is upstream thinking?
These national guidelines define the scope and depth of community health nursing practice in Canada, ensuring consistency, quality, and accountability across the profession.
What are the Canadian Community Health Nursing Standards of Practice?
Support in this critical stage of life—from birth to age 5—can shape brain development, lifelong learning, and long-term health outcomes.
What is early childhood development?
Absence of unfair systems and policies that cause health inequalities.
What is Health equity?
Adopted in 1986, this global framework outlines five key action areas—like building healthy public policy and creating supportive environments—to promote population health.
What is the Ottawa Charter?
Public Health, Home Health Care and Primary Health care.
Where do community health nurses work?
This nursing specialty focuses on promoting and protecting the health of entire populations through prevention, advocacy, and community-based interventions.
What is public health nursing?
Without this key determinant—ensuring care that is both affordable and high-quality—many people delay treatment, leading to worse health outcomes.
What is access to affordable health care services of decent quality?
Seeking care to remain healthy.
What is primary health care?
Any group of people who fit together based on some common thread.
What is a community?
This systematic process—consisting of assessment, diagnosis, planning, implementation, and evaluation.
What is the community health nursing process?
This type of nurse provides care to clients in their own residences, often managing chronic conditions, supporting recovery, and promoting independence at home.
What is a home health care nurse?