to this population include the need to identify local values and find ways to align them with public health policy so that this community is better supported. Another consideration that should be made is the problem of fragmentation among the community: many low… Continue Reading...
those services. Finally, Healthy Cities/Healthy Communities promote social justice and health equity. The fundamental tenets of the nursing and public health policy include the assurance that all residents of the community have the opportunity to live as a high a quality of life as possible.
Policy Brief: Healthy Communities
Audience and Decision Makers
Uriel Jones, Mayor of Puerto Santa Lucia, is the primary audience for this policy brief. As a chief decision maker in the Puerto Santa Lucia community, Jones has the ability to make the top-down executive decisions that affect economic policy, business development, infrastructure changes, and citywide public health policies. Jones has worked with nurses and public… Continue Reading...
mechanism of action, and a third method is their level of importance overall in human medicine, which pragmatic implications for public policy, public health policy, and healthcare procurement and logistics (“Categorization of Antimicrobial Drugs Based on Importance in Human Medicine,” 2009). Antimicrobials can also be classified based on their antibacterial activity, referring to features like mechanisms of resistance, sensitivity, and predicted spectrum (Purdue Research Foundation, 1996). In fact, antimicrobials can also be classified according to their source: as they are typically derived from at least three sources including molds or fungi, bacteria themselves, or from synthetic analysis (Purdue Research Foundation, 1996). The broadest means by which to classify antimicrobial agents would be… Continue Reading...