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This guide is created to be "one-stop shopping" for many of your public health nursing needs. You will find public health nursing books, resources, database, organizations, information on evidence-based medicine, polices, demographic statistic information, and journals. Please enjoy!

The Minnesota Department of Public Health's publication, Public Health Interventions: Applications for Nursing, 2nd Edition, defines the facets of public health practice at the individual, community, and systemic levels and is a useful tool for nurses to better understand the scope of public health practices.
To review the definitions of each "slice" of the wheel, visit Public Health Interventions Defined.
Definition
Public health nursing is the practice of promoting and protecting the health of populations using knowledge from nursing, social, and public health sciences.
American Public Health Association. (2013). The definition and practice of public health nursing.
The TCU Public Health Nursing Guide was created and co-authored by LeAnn Boyce, intern, and Alysha Sapp, with advice from Dr. Alexander, Dr. Cole, and students from TCU.
Last Updated by Michele Whitehead: July 21, 2025
Control of Communicable Diseases Manual
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Control of Communicable Diseases Manual, 20th Edition Every chapter updated, and most benefitting from parallel updated by international experts, at both, CDC and WHO, priority has been given to ensuring global relevance. New disease variants have been included and some chapters have been fundamentally reworked. The 20th edition is a timely update to a milestone reference work that ensures the relevance and usefulness to every public health professional around the world.