"Written from a health promotion and illness prevention perspective, this practical textbook provides expert guidance on community-based nursing care for children, adolescents, adults, and the elderly. You'll find complete coverage of health care settings, nursing roles, and effective interventions, as well as important community-related topics such as environmental health, epidemiology, home care, and communicable disease. Newly streamlined to focus on "must-know" content, it contains special features and boxes throughout for fast access to the information you need to know."--BOOK JACKET.