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Nursing: Community Health

eBooks on Community Health Nursing @ VCC Library

Nursing and Health Interventions by Souraya Sidani; Carrie Jo Braden
Call Number: Available online
ISBN: 9781119610137
Publication Date: 2021
Covid-19, First Nations and Poor Housing: “Wash Hands Frequently” and “Self-Isolate” Akin to “Let Them Eat Cake” in First Nations with Overcrowded Homes Lacking Piped Water by Shirley Thompson, Marleny Bonnycastle, Stewart Hill
Call Number: Available Online
ISBN: 9781771255059
Publication Date: 2020
Integrative Health Nursing Interventions for Vulnerable Populations by Amber Vermeesch
Call Number: Available online
ISBN: 3030600432
Publication Date: 2020
Evidence-Informed Health Policy by Jacqueline M. Loversidge; Joyce Zurmehly; Sigma Theta Tau International Staff (Contribution by)
Call Number: Available online.
ISBN: 9781948057202
Publication Date: 2019
This May Hurt a Bit: Reinventing Canada's Health Care System by Stephen Skyvington; Brian Day (Foreword by)
Call Number: Available online.
ISBN: 9781459742437
Publication Date: 2019

Public Health in the Age of Anxiety : Religious and Cultural Roots of Vaccine Hesitancy in Canada
Publication date: 2017
Available Online

Nursing with a Message: Public Health Demonstration Projects in New York City by Patricia D'Antonio
Call Number: Available online.
ISBN: 9780813571034
Publication Date: 2017
Healthy Places, Healthy People by Melanie Creagan Dreher; Lisa Elaine Skemp; Susan Primm Lehmann
Call Number: Available Online
ISBN: 9781940446660
Publication Date: 2016
Introduction to Community Nursing Practice by Jane Arnott; Siobhan Atherley; Sarah Pye; Joanne Kelly
Call Number: Available online.
ISBN: 9780335244713
Publication Date: 2012
Promoting Health and Wellness in Underserved Communities by Robert A. Corrigan (Foreword by); Anabel Pelham (Editor); Elizabeth Sills (Editor); Gerald S. Eisman (Contribution by)
Call Number: Available online.
ISBN: 9781579225674
Publication Date: 2009
Public Policy and Canadian Nursing : Lessons from the Field by Michael J. Villeneuve
Call Number: Available online
ISBN: 9781551309712
Publication Date: 2017

Health in Canada

Health at a glance: Difficulty accessing health care services in Canada .
A Statistics Canada report released on December 2016.
Archived - Canada's Nutrition and Health Atlas
Data reflects information up to 2013 on the health and nutrition of Canada's population across the province through a visual map presentation. A wide variety of categories can be looked up here.

Indigenous Health

Indigenous Family Health (Government of Canada)
Indigenous Services Canada
Indigenous Health (Government of Canada)
Institute of Indigenous Peoples' Health ( Canadian Institutes of Health Research)
Reports and Publications – First Nations and Inuit Health (Government of Canada)
Indigenous Health and Well-Being: Final Update
Published by the BC Office of the Provincial Health Officer and the the First Nations Health Authority, dated July 1, 2018 and publicly released December 2018.

Health Literacy and Health Promotion

Health Statistics

There are several resources you can use for statistics listed on the Health Statistics library guide.

Books on Commuity Health Nursing @ VCC Library

Community and Public Health Nursing : Evidence for practice by Judith Healey-Walsh
Call Number: RT 98 H373 2020
ISBN: 9781975111694
Publication Date: 2020
3rd ed.
Community health nursing: a Canadian perspective by Lynnette Leeseberg Stamler, Lucia Yiu, Aliyah Dosani, Josephine Etowa, Cheryl Van Daalen-Smith (eds.)
Call Number: RT 98 C665 2020
ISBN: 9780134837888
Publication Date: 2020
Community/Public Health Nursing : Promoting the health of populations by Mary A. Nies; Melanie McEwen
Call Number: RT 98 C667 2019
ISBN: 9780323528948
Publication Date: 2019
7th ed.
Community Health Nursing in Canada by Marcia Stanhope; Sonya L. Jakubec; Jeanette Lancaster; Sandra A. Pike-MacDonald
Call Number: RT 98 C6654 2017
ISBN: 1771720182
Publication Date: 2017
Canadian Community As Partner by Ardene Robinson Vollman; Elizabeth T. Anderson; Judith McFarlane
Call Number: RT 98 V65 2017
ISBN: 9781496339980
Publication Date: 2017
Contemporary Health Promotion in Nursing Practice by Bonnie Raingruber
Call Number: RT 42 R35 2017
ISBN: 9781284094749
Publication Date: 2017

Community Health Resources

Canadian Community Health Survey, 2019
Released August 6, 2020
Canadian Community Health Survey: Data table
Released February 3, 2021.
Women in Canada: A Gender-based Statistical Report: The Health of Girls and Women
Community Health Care (Canadian Nurses Association)
Canadian Association of Community Health Centres
Community Health Nursing Vision 2020: Shaping the future
This links to a working document of the Community Health Nurses Association of Canada and the School of Nursing, McMaster University.

BC Health and BC Health Care

BC Guidelines
Provides clinical practice guidelines and protocols,
Taking the pulse of the population: An update on the health of British Columbians.
Published in 2019.

Disaster Preparedness

Disasters and Mass Casualty Incidents: The nuts and bolts of preparedness and response to protracted and sudden onset emergencies by Mauricio Lynn (Editor); Howard Lieberman (Editor); Lior Lynn (Editor); Gerd Daniel Pust (Editor); Kenneth Stahl (Editor); Daniel Dante Yeh (Editor); Tanya Zakrison (Editor)
Call Number: Available online
ISBN: 9783319973609
Publication Date: 2018
Public Health Emergency Preparedness: A Practical Approach for the Real World by Suzett McKinney
Call Number: Available online.
ISBN: 9781284069259
Publication Date: 2018
Healing a community: Lessons for recovery after a large-scale trauma by Melissa Glaser
Call Number: Available online.
ISBN: 9781942094913
Publication Date: 2019

Pandemics

Field Notes from a Pandemic: A journey through a suspended world by Ethan Lou
Call Number: RA 644 C67 L68 2020
ISBN: 9780771029974
Publication Date: 2020
Pandemic Solidarity: Mutual aid during the covid-19 crisis by Marina Sitrin (Editor); Colectiva Sembrar
Call Number: Available online.
ISBN: 9780745343167
Publication Date: 2020
The Psychology of Pandemics : Preparing for the Next Global Outbreak of Infectious Disease by Steven Taylor
Call Number: Available online.
ISBN: 9781527539594
Publication Date: 2019

Links to Local Community Profiles

My Health My Community : Community Profiles
Community Profile links to Metro Vancouver areas, the Fraser Valley and Coastal Rural.
Vancouver Coastal Health: Community Health Profiles
Vancouver city's various areas with community profile information.
Fraser Valley Health : Your Community
First Nations Health Authority
(British Columbia)
First Nations Health Authority - Population Health and Wellness
BC Community Health Data (Provincial Health Services Authority)
Community Profiles are organized by region and links are provided here to all the BC Health Authorities. There is a searchable Health Database that you can use to obtain customized data. There is also an interactive BC Community Health Atlas.

Other Community Profiles

Social Determinants of Health

World Health Organization Social Determinants of Health
Health topic: Social determinants of health (WHO)
Infographic: What is health in all policies? Using an example from the environment sector (WHO)
Canada's Response to WHO Commission on Social Determinants of Health (Public Health Agency of Canada)
Canadian Council on Social Determinants of Health
Social determinants of health and health inequalities (Health Canada)
Social Determinants of Health : The Canadian Facts
Citizenship and Health: What role can citizenship play in the social determinants of health?
Author, Anjum Sultana. Published June, 2017.
Social Determinants of Health: The Solid Facts.
2nd. ed. Edited by Richard Wilkinson and Michael Marmot. Published, 2003.
Determinants of Health (Government of Canada)
Contributors to this site: Health Canada and the Public Health Agency of Canada.
Social Determinants of Health (Public Health Agency of Canada. Canadian Best Practices Portal)

Library Resources - Social Determinants of Health

Social Determinants of Health by Toba Bryant; Juha Mikkonen; Alexander David Raphael (By (photographer))
Call Number: RA 418.3 C2 2020
ISBN: 9780968348420
Publication Date: 2020
Public Health Evaluation and the Social Determinants of Health by Allyson Kelley
Call Number: Available online.
ISBN: 9781000071719
Publication Date: 2020
Global Health Studies by Louise Warwick-Booth; Ruth Cross
Call Number: RA 441 W37 2018
ISBN: 9781509504176
Publication Date: 2018
Determinants of indigenous peoples' health in Canada : beyond the social by Margo Greenwood, Sarah de Leeuw, Nicole Marie Lindsay, and Charlotte Reading (eds.)
Call Number: RA 450.4 I53 D48 2015
ISBN: 9781551307329
Publication Date: 2015

Vaccines and Vaccinations

Stuck: How vaccine rumors start and why they don't go away by Heidi J. Larson
Call Number: Available online
ISBN: 9780190077259
Publication Date: 2020
Vaccines by Kristen A. Feemster
Call Number: RA 638 F44 2018
ISBN: 9780190277918
Publication Date: 2018

Substance Abuse

The Age of fentanyl: Ending the opioid epidemic by Brodie Ramin
Call Number: RC 568 )45 R36 2020
ISBN: 9781459746701
Publication Date: 2020

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