Objectives:

1. Compare and contrast population focused health care with community based health care.
2. Discuss characteristics of a population based nursing/occupational therapy practice.
3. Compare and contrast two models of health practice: the dimensions model of community health nursing model and the ecology of  human performance model (EHP).
4. Use the dimensions model or the EHP model to compare & contrast populations. 
5. Discuss psychological, social, physical, behavioral, and health system factors that influence individual and group well-being.
6. Describe the epidemiological process.
7. Compare and contrast the epidemiologic triangle and the web of causality with regards to disease development.
8. Compare and contrast epidemiologic research methods.
9. Describe the benefits of prevention and how the epidemiological process can be used for evaluative purposes.

Assigned Readings:  click on the heading "assigned readings" and you can choose from the menu. Password is octh776

Clark: Chapter 9: Theoretical Foundations for Community Health Nursing 

Clark: Chapter 10: Epidemiology and Health Promotion

Baldwin, J. H., Conger, C.O., Abegglen, J. C., & Hill, E. M. (1998). Population-focused and community-based nursing: Moving toward clarification of concepts. Public Health Nursing, 15, 12-18.

American Occupational Therapy Association. (2001). Occupational therapy in the promotion of health and the prevention of disease and disability statement. American Journal of Occupational Therapy, 55, 656-660. 

Bass-Haugen, J., Henderson, M. L., Larson, B.A., & Matuska, K. (2005). Occupational issues of concerns in populations. In C. H. Christiansen, C. M. Baum, and J. Bass-Haugen (Eds.), Occupational therapy: Performance, participation, and well-being (3rd ed., pp. 166-182). Thorofare, NJ: SLACK Incorporated.

Dunn, W., Brown, C., & McGuigan, A. (1994). The ecology of human performance: A framework for considering the effect of context.  American Journal of Occupational Therapy, 48, 595-607.