In your role as a community health nurse, you are focusing your current health promotion efforts on diseases that are disproportionately represented among ethnic and racial minorities. Which of the following diseases would you likely address?
Select all that apply.
A)Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)
B)Cancer
C)Heart disease
D)Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD)E)Alzheimer's disease
Ans: A, B, CFeedback:Ethnic and racial minorities are disproportionately burdened with cancer, heart disease,diabetes, human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), infection/acquired immunodeficiencysyndrome (AIDS), and other conditions. COPD and Alzheimer's disease are incorrect
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