Disciplines and Occupations

Public Health Nursing

A nursing specialty concerned with promoting and protecting the health of populations, using knowledge from nursing, social, and public health sciences to develop local, regional, state, and national health policy and research. It is population-focused and community-oriented, aimed at health promotion and disease prevention through educational, diagnostic, and preventive programs.

National Library of MedicineMedical Subject Headings2026

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Abstract

A nursing specialty concerned with promoting and protecting the health of populations, using knowledge from nursing, social, and public health sciences to develop local, regional, state, and national health policy and research. It is population-focused and community-oriented, aimed at health promotion and disease prevention through educational, diagnostic, and preventive programs.

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Synonyms

1 entry terms
  • Nursing, Public Health

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Aspects Covered

11 allowable subheadings

Indexed with the subheadings classification, economics, education, ethics, history, legislation & jurisprudence, methods, organization & administration, standards, statistics & numerical data, trends.

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Indexing Annotation

do not confuse with COMMUNITY HEALTH NURSING

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  1. H02w.478w.676.755w

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References

  1. National Library of Medicine. Public Health Nursing. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 2026. Unique ID D011637. http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2026/D011637
  2. Public Health Nursing. In: Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_health_nursing
  3. Public Health Nursing. In: Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7257749