NSE 112 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Paternalism, Postpartum Depression, Primary Healthcare
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Community health nursing practice includes population health promotion, protection, maintenance and restoration; community, family, and individual health promotion; and individual rehabilitation or palliative care. Promote, protect and preserve the health of individuals, families, caregivers, other disciplines, communities and governments. Social justice is the equitable, or fair distribution of society"s benefits, responsibilities and their consequences. It focuses on the relative position of social advantage of one individual or social group in relation to others in society as well as on the root cause of inequities and what can be done to eliminate them. Primary health care focuses on education, rehabilitation, support services, health promotion and disease prevention. Empowerment is described as a psychological, cultural, social or political process by which people, individually and collectively in organizations and communities, exercise their ability to effect change to enhance control, quality of life, political effectiveness and social justice.
