Retaining its strong emphasis on health promotion, Community health nursing presents a full unit on the tools and techniques for promoting health. The text helps the student apply for traditional concepts such as nursing theory, epidemiology and ethics, to contemporary problems such as homelessness and deinstitutionalization of the mentally ill. This edition includes a new chapter on primary health care, a detailed discussion of AIDS as a community health problem in a new chapter on sexually transmitted diseases, a new chapter on vulnerable populations, revised chapters on growth and development, and clinical applications in each chapter.