Differents Field of CHN employees and the workplace is

School HEALTH NURSING more than 1km away from the

• The application of nursing theories nearest center
and principles in the care of the • Occupational Hazards
school population o Physical
• Focus: Promotion of health and o Chemical
wellness of students and teachers o Biological
• Primary Role: Ensure educational o Mechanical
potential is not hampered by unmet o Psychosocial
health needs Functions of OH nurse (DOLE, 1996)
• Organizing and administering
Functions of the School Nurse health service program
• School Health and Nutrition Survey • Providing nursing care to injured or
• Establishment of a functional ill workers
school clinic • Participating in:
• Comprehensive Health o Health maintenance
Assessment examination
• Implementation of Standard Vision o The maintenance
Testing for School Children examination
• Thorough Ear Examination o The maintenance of
• Accurate Height and Weight occupational health and
Measurement for Nutritional Status safety
Determination • Maintaining a reporting and records
• Efficient Medical Referrals system
• Prompt Attendance to Emergency
Cases COMMUNITY MENTAL HEALTH NURSING
• Student in Health Counseling • Concerned with the promotion of
Services mental, prevention of mental health
• Engaging in Health and Nutrition disorders
Education Activities Goals:
• Formation of School-Community • Promotion of mental health
Health and Nutrition Councils • Decrease health-related effects of a
• Effective Control of Communicable stressful lifestyle
Diseases • Reduction of prevalence of mental
• Creation of a Comprehensive Data ill health and disorders
Bank on School Health and
Nutrition Functions of CMH nurse:
• Treatment Planning
Occupational HEALTH NURSING • Medication Management
• Conserving health workers in all • Assessment
occupations • Counseling
• Mission: every man and woman in • Family Support
the country is safe and in healthful • Education
working conditions • Facilitate Services with Visiting
• R.A. 1054 - Occupational Health Psychiatrists
Act
o Occupational nurse must be Hospice Home Care
employed when there are 30-100 • Renders to terminally ill
 • Provide comfort to improve QoL o Nations
• Provide support to the patient and
family CHARACTERISTICS OF A HEALTHY
• Palliative care is particularly COMMUNITY (Hunt, 1997; Duhl, 2022)
important • A shared sense of being a
community based on history and
EntrepreNurse values.
• Project initiated by DOLE in collab • A general feeling of empowerment
with: and control over matter that affect
o Board of Nursing the community as a whole
o DOH • Existing structure that allow
o PNA subgroups within the community to
• Introduces a home healthcare participate in decision making in
industry community matters
• The ability to cope with change,
Aims of Entreprenurse: solve problems, and community
• Reduces the cost of healthcare for through acceptable means
country’s indigent population by • Open channels of communication
bringin primary health care services and cooperation among the
to poor rural communities members of the community
• Maximize employment • Equitable and efficient use of
opportunities community resources, with the view
• Utilize the country’s unemployed towards sustaining natural
human resources for health for the resources
delivery of public health services
Aims of a Healthy Community
TYPES OF COMMUNITY (Maurer & Smith, • Achieve a good quality of life
2009) • Create a health-supportive
Phenomenological (Functioning) environment
• Place is abstract, people share • Provide basic sanitation and
group perspective or identity based hygiene needs
on: • Supply access to healthcare
o Culture
o Values Components of a Community
o History • Environment
o Interests • People
o goals • Economy
Geopolitical (Territorial) • Culture
• Mos traditionally recognized or • Health
imagined when considering the • Quality of Life
term community
• Natural and man made boundaries Factors Affecting Health of the Community
include: 1. Characteristic of the populations
o Barangays 2. Location of the community
o Municipalities 3. Social system within the
o Cities community
o Provinces Roles and Activities of CHNurse
o Regions • Health provider
 • Health educator i. Indicates ease by which a
• Program implementer communicable disease can
• Community organizer be transmitted from one host
• Manager/Leader to another susceptible host
• Researcher / Epidemiologist c. Population Density
• Client Advocate i. Congestion of the places
• Vital Statistics
Tools - Study of the characteristics of
1. Demography human populations
a. Study of population size, composition - Comprises of important events in
& spatial distribution as affected by human life
births, deaths & migration, o Birth, death, fetal death,
2. Health indicator marriage, divorce, annulment,
A. Sources of demographic data judicial separation, adoption,
Primary data – original data collected for a legitimation, and recognition
specific purpose by a researcher Health Indicators
- Census – official and periodic - List of info that determine health of
enumeration of the population a particular community like:
- De jure – enumeration of indiv as of o Population crude birth rate,
where they reside regardless of where crude death rate, infant and
they are maternal death rates,
- De facto – where they are found in the neonatal death rates, and
census tuberculosis death rate.
- Sample survey – sample of a given
population

Secondary data – collected by other

individuals for some specific purposes
- Continuing Population Registers –
collected by civil registrar’s office deal
with recording vital vents like births,
deaths, marriages, and divorce

B. Population Size
- Number of people in a given time
and place
C. Composition
- Population is characterized in
relation to age, sex, occupation, or
education level
D. Distribution
- How people are distributed in a
specific geographic location
a. Urban-Rural Distribution
i. Proportion of people living in
urban compared to the rural
areas
b. Crowding Index
 Life Expectancy
- PH in 2024 71.79 years for both sex
PH health situation
- Made significant investments and
advances in health in recent years.
Rapid economic growth and strong
country capacity
- Health insurance now covers 92% of the
population.
Demography
- Current population of the PH is
116,008,401 as of Tuesday, sept 3, 2024
- PH population is 1.42% of total world
population
- PH Ranks 14 in the list of countries by
population
- Median Age in PH: 25.7 Years
- 48.7% population is urban (56,434,179)

Philippines Health Situation (COVID 19)

- Proclamation no. 297: Lifting of the
state of public health emergency
throughout the PH due to covid-19
Leading Causes of Morbidity Philippines Health Situation (MPOX)
- 2020, morbidity rate per 100,000 - 8 active cases of mpox as of September
population of acute upper respiratory 1, 2024
tract infection was approx. 652.9 in PH
- Tuberculosis per 100,000:43.1 in the
country Population Density
- 389 people per km^2 (1006 people per
square mile) calculated on a total land
area of 298,170km^2
Epidemiology and the Nurse
Epidemiology
- Study of distribution and determination
of health-related states or events in
specified population and control of
heath problem. Focuses on freq and
pattern of health events
Communicable Disease
- Spread from 1 person to another
Noncommunicable Disease
- Chronic disease which are the result of
genetic, physiological, environmental,
and behavioral factors

Level of Disease Occurrence

Sporadic
- Refers to a disease that occurs
infrequently and irregularly
Endemic
- Constant presence of a disease
Hyperendemic
- Refers to persistent, high levels of
disease occurrence
Epidemic
- Increase, often sudden, in the number
of cases of a disease above what is
normal and expected