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This 3 page paper discsuses the concepts of community and aggregates as they apply to community nursing. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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then suggests an aggregate that it might be beneficial to assess. Discussion The difference between a community and an aggregate is very slight, and much of the way its understood
depends on semantics. In the 2004 edition of their popular textbook Community/public health nursing practice: health for families and populations, Frances A. Maurer and Claudia M. Smith define both community
and aggregate, first pointing out the difficulty in defining community. The term can be defined in many ways, such as a religious community, an academic community, or the local neighborhood
(Maurer and Smith, 2004). In terms of the text, with its emphasis on nursing, community is defined as "an open social system that is characterized by people in a place
over time who have common goals" (Maurer and Smith, 2004, p. 341). That is, to be considered a community, people must live in the same place and remain there for
an extended period. An "aggregate" apparently encompasses the community and is defined as "any number of individuals with at least one common
characteristic" (Maurer and Smith, 2004, p. 341). They go on to say that both the terms "population group" and "aggregate" are synonyms for "population," which is then further defined as
"a collection of individuals who share one or more personal or environmental characteristics, the most common of which is geographic location" (Maurer and Smith, 2004, p. 341). This seems to
be hair-splitting at its finest, but it would appear that the biggest difference between the two is that a population, population group or aggregate, which all mean the same, have
one meaning that is not found in community. The differences between community and aggregate are hard to grasp. A community, for nursing
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