Community Health
A tool to ensure public health programs, services, and policies are adequately meeting goals and objective
Population Health Assessment
The resistance of a group to invasion and spread of an infectious agent, based on a high proportion of individual members of the group being resistant to infection
Herd Immunity
Apply community health promotion strategies to achieve collaborative community actions and to improve sustainable health outcomes of the community
Community Health Promotion Model
The earliest forms of health care in Canada
The practices of First Peoples using traditional medicines and healing practices
Nurses uphold principles of justice by safeguarding human rights, equity, and fairness and by promoting the public good
Promoting Justice
Public health professionals improve the health of Canadians through healthy public policy, public participation, and community-based interventions.
Health Promotion
Are carried and transmitted by blood
Blood Borne Disease
An ongoing systematic appraisal of the community.
Community Assessment
The earliest form of nursing practised in Canada and has a long and proud history of health promotion.
Community Health Nursing
Nurses recognize the importance of privacy and confidentiality and safeguard personal, family, and community information obtained in the context of a professional relationship.
Privacy and Confidentiality
Initiatives are those that prevent conditions that would enable the risk factors for disease from developing
Primordial Prevention
Enter the body through the mouth and intestinal tract and affect the digestive system
Enteric Infection
Is a diverse group of people or aggregates residing within the boundaries of a community.
A population
Canada’s first nurse
Jean Mance
Nurses recognize, respect, and promote a person’s right to be informed and make decisions.
Informed Decision Making
May entail both personal and communal efforts, such as decreasing environmental risks, enhancing nutritional status, immunizing against communicable diseases, or improving water supplies
Primary Prevention
Acquired through the consumption of contaminated food.
Food Borne Infection
A view of a community achieved by walking and observing.
A Windshield Survey
Provided a comprehensive array of services from bedside nursing to preventive health teaching.
District or Visiting Nurses
Nurses work with persons who have health-care needs or are receiving care to enable them to attain their highest possible level of health and well-being.
Promoting Health and Well Being
Those that aim to identify disease processes as early as possible, usually at the preclinical stage, which may reduce the prevalence of the disease by curbing its duration
Secondary Prevention
Enter water supplies through fecal contamination from animals or humans to cause enteric illnesses
Water Borne Pathogens
An interview with an important member of a community.
Key Informant
Declared primary health care as the guiding vision for achieving health for all people.
The declaration of Alma Ata.
Nurses recognize and respect the intrinsic worth of each person
Promoting Dignity