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Authored by highly respected nurse educators, leaders, and scholars, this text focuses on the power of nurses and how they can make substantial contributions to improve the health of all populations. It delivers an in-depth examination and analysis of current issues and determinants of health as outlined by Healthy People 2020 and addresses AACN’s Essentials of Doctoral Education for Advanced Nursing Practice.
Along with principles, pathways, and imperatives pertinent to achieving health equity, thetext discusses the evolution of thinking from eliminating health disparities to achieving health equity, and examines population-based and population-specific inequities in health status and outcomes. Highlighting the importance of interprofessional collaboration, it surveys timely initiatives, programs, and professionals—within and outside of the health sciences—who are important partners in efforts toward achieving health equity. Chapters are highly templated to include objectives, key concepts, critical-thinking questions, discussion questions, and resources.
- Key Features:
- Focuses on the power of nursing to make substantive contributions to improving the health of all populations
- Examines principles, pathways, and imperatives pertinent to achieving health equity
- Discusses economic, environmental, personal, social, and structural factors that impact health status and outcomes
- Highlights the importance of interprofessional collaboration in achieving health equity
- Addresses AACN’s Essentials of Doctoral Education for Advanced Nursing Practice
- Demonstrates key concepts and stimulates reflection through critical-thinking and discussion questions
- Purchase includes digital access for use on most mobile devices or computers
Contributors
Foreword Rear Admiral Sylvia Trent-Adams, PhD, RN, FAAN
Preface
Section I: Policy Issues and Implications for Nursing
1. Introduction: Health Equity Does Not Mean Health Equality
2. Nursing as a Force for Health Equity
3. Evidence-Based Policy Making
Health Equity and Nursing Education: Past, Present, and Future
5. Health Equity and Health System Transformation Policy
6. Genetics, Social Determinants of Health, and Policy Challenges Across the Life Span
Section II: Population Health
7. The Conceptual Model of Nursology for Enhancing Equity and Quality: Population Health and Health Policy
8. Integrating the Social Determinants of Health Into the Clinical Setting
9. Structural Determinants of Health: An American Indian Exemplar
10. Global Health Equity for LGBTQ People and Populations
11. Veterans and Health Equity
Section III: Interprofessional Collaboration
12. Achieving Health Equity: Exemplars in Engaging Global Communities
13. A Health System’s Interprofessional Approach to Impact Health Equity
14. The Critical Discussion of Race and Racism Toward Achieving Equity in Health Policy
15. Pathways to Achieving Health Equity: Exemplars of Community and Intersectoral Partnerships
16. Politics and Law at the Root of Health Equity
17. The Intersection of Health Literacy, Health Equity, and Nursing Practice
18. The Role of Community Health Centers in Health Equity
Epilogue
Index