When assessing environmental factors affecting health and illness, the nurse must realize these factors are both physical and social, and that they:
a. affect one another.
b. cause illness.
c. cause patients to react similarly.
d. can be separated.
A
Physical and social factors affect each other, cannot be separated, and cause each patient to react in a unique manner.
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