This nursing course integrates nursing knowledge and public health principles and focuses on the promotion and the protection of the health and the well-being of the community. The prevention of disease is addressed by gaining an in-depth understanding of the effect of the bio-psycho, cultural, socio-economic, political and environmental determinants of health status and outcomes. Surveillance, case management, and profit/non-profit health initiatives are examined as strategies for reducing the burden of disease and impacting the health of individuals, groups and communities.