Leadership: Partners in Health Promotion

Primary health care and population health

Prevention:

• Individuals, families, groups, and communities
• Primary, secondary, and tertiary prevention

Partnerships:

• Individuals, families, groups, and communities
• Capacity building, identifying strengths

Community:

• Community as context and culture
• Community as resource
• Healthy communities

Socio-environmental approach to health promotion:

• Directed toward action on the determinants of health
• Diverse, complementary approaches
• Facilitating effective community participation

Chronicity:

• Trends and issues
• Lived experience
• Self care
• Supportive care

Client-centered health education:

• Individuals, families, groups, and communities
• Theoretical perspectives on teaching and learning
• Principles of teaching and learning
• Teaching processes with a focus on prevention (e.g. solution focused counseling).
• Teaching across the lifespan, with diverse client populations and in a variety of contexts
• Health literacy

Epidemiology:

• Epidemiological models and sources of data
• Populations experiencing disadvantage 
• Role of epidemiology in nursing research and practice

Emergency preparedness:

• Public safety and emergency preparedness in Canada
• Roles and responsibilities of government agencies in emergency preparedness
• The role of nurses in community disasters

 Global health:

• Health for all movement and globalization
• International initiatives
• Effect on Canadians

Health informatics:

• Digital health and nursing informatics
• Information and knowledge management
• Professional accountability
• Information and communications
• Digital literacy
• Use of data standards in health improvement