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The only ground-up Canadian community health nursing text, Community Health Nursing: A Canadian Perspective has been specifically designed to match the way the course is offered in Canada. Widely praised for its accessible writing style, Canadian content, and thorough coverage of the key topic areas in community health nursing, this text strikes the perfect balance between theory and practice. With over 50 contributors from across Canada, Community Health Nursing will help students understand and apply key concepts informed by the unique influences that shape health in Canada.

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Lynnette Leeseberg Stamler, RN, Phd, dLitt, FAAN, is Professor and Associate dean for Academic Programs at the University of Nebraska Medical Center, College of Nursing. From 1984 to 2012 she taught in Canadian schools of nursing and was a VON nurse prior to her teaching career. She completed her BSN at St. Olaf College, Minnesota, her MEd in health education at the University of Manitoba, and her Phd in nursing at the University of Cincinnati. Her research interests include patient/health education, diabetes education, nursing education, and quality care. She is active in national and international nursing organizations, including Sigma Theta Tau International, and was president of the Canadian Association of Schools of Nursing from 2008 to 2010. In 2011 she was inducted into the American Academy of Nursing.

Lucia Yiu, RN, BScN, BA (University of Windsor), BSc (University of Toronto), MScN (University of Western Ontario), is Associate Professor Emeritus with the Faculty of Nursing at the University of Windsor and an educational and training consultant in community nursing. Her practice and research include multicultural health, international health, experiential learning, community development, breast health, and program planning and evaluation. Lucia was the recipient of the 2014 Community Health Nurses of Canada Award of Merit. She was also co-editor for the first four editions of Community Health Nursing: A Canadian Perspective and for the second and third Canadian editions of Kozier's Fundamentals of Nursing: Theory to Practice.

Aliyah Dosani, RN, BN, MPH, PhD, is Associate Professor in the School of Nursing and Midwifery, Faculty of Health, Community and Education at Mount Royal University in Calgary, Alberta. She is also an Adjunct Associate Professor in the Department of Community Health Sciences, Cumming School of Medicine, at University of Calgary in Calgary. She holds a PhD from the University of Calgary with a specialization in population/public health. Her nursing practice includes instructing students in the bachelor of Nursing program, population/public health, community health nursing, and legal issues in nursing. Her work focuses on maternal, newborn, and child health. Her research interests include working on health equity and social justice issues through community-based programs and interventions. She also shares a passion for global health issues.

Josephine Etowa, PHD, MN, BScN, RM, RN, FwACN, FAAN, is a professor and Loyer da Silva Research Chair in Public Health Nursing at the University of Ottawa. She is a senior investigator with the Nursing Best Practice Research Centre at the University of Ottawa and a founding member and past president of the Health Association of African Canadians. Her program of research is grounded in over 25 years of clinical practice in maternal newborn and child health and community health nursing, with projects funded by local, national, and international organizations. She is currently the nominated principal investigator for a Canadian Institutes of Health Research–funded three-year, three-country study investigating infant feeding practices among Black women is living with HIV/AIDS in Ottawa, Port Harcourt (Nigeria), and Miami (United States). She serves on the boards of directors of the CPHA and the CHNC Research Committee, and she co-chairs CHNC's Standards of Practice Advisory Committee.

Cheryl van Daalen-Smith, RN, PhD, is Associate Professor in the School of Nursing, Faculty of Health at York University. She is cross appointed to the School of Gender, Sexuality and Women's Studies and to the Children's Studies Program, where she teaches a course on children's health and quality of life and a course on girlhood. Her nursing practice includes community health/public health nursing and pediatric nursing, with research exploring girls' and women's mental health, women and anger, women and self-esteem, and an exploration of men's and women's experiences of psychiatric hospitalization in Canada. She is the founder and co-editor of Witness: The Canadian Journal of Critical Nursing Discourse.

About the Contributors

This fifth edition brings new and former authors to the book. As before, some hold academic positions, some are in management or policy positions, and others are front-line practitioners. All came with a commitment to share their work with the readers as they contribute to this Canadian community health nursing text, and this further demonstrates the cyclical nature of theory and practice. Each brings expertise and knowledge to a particular chapter and topic. Each has presented the various historical, geographical, social, political, and theoretical perspectives that assist in explaining and describing community nursing practice.