PHN Topics

 Public Health Nursing concentrates on a broad set of issues affecting personal and environmental health, including federal and state funding for health programs, pollution control, programs and policies related to chronic and infectious diseases, a smoke-free society, and professional education in public health.

Each county offers specific programs in communicable disease control and prevention, health promotion and chronic disease prevention, environmental health, maternal, child and adolescent health, disaster preparedness, health surveillance and data, and public health practice that are relevant to the given community. 

• World Health Organization (WHO) Infectious Diseases
• Department of Health and Human Services Disease Information Brochures
• CDC National Center for HIV, STD, and TB Prevention
• American Public Health Association (APHA) Topics & Issues
• Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s detailed Health Topics A to Z