Author(s)

Marta Regina Cezar-Vaz, Clarice Alves Bonow, Cynthia Fontella Sant’ Anna, Laurelize Pereira Rocha, Marlise Capa Verde de Almeida, Mara Regina Santos da Silva

Federal University of Pampa, Uruguaiana, Brazil.
School of Nursing, Federal University of Rio Grande/RS, Rio Grande City in Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil;.

It is understood that the performance of Public Health Nursing is indispensable for the development of sustainable health communities, with regard to sub-standard living conditions in environments that include physical, chemical and biological factors influencing these conditions. This work is in an integrative review which aims to characterize how Environmental Health appears in scientific Public Health Nursing production, for the development of community health. Out of 442 articles, 30 met the search criteria. The publications covered contamination and exposure to environmental risks; strengthening of community groups for environmental health and workforce development of public health nursing for community practice in environmental health. The results summarized in the present study support the growing trend of interest in Environmental Health as knowledge which is essential to Public Health Nursing practice in the community.

Public Health Nursing; Environmental Health; Community Health

Cezar-Vaz, M. , Bonow, C. , Sant’ Anna, C. , Rocha, L. , de Almeida, M. and Santos da Silva, M. (2013) Environmental health in public health community practice: An integrative review of the literature. Health, 5, 1422-1432. doi: 10.4236/health.2013.59194.