A PHN collaborates with a physician's clinic to increase the number of infants and toddlers who receive lead screening. According to the integrative model, what client system and focus of care are being addressed?
a. Aggregate level health promotion
b. Aggregate level illness prevention
c. Family level illness care
d. Individual level health promotion
ANS: A
Each succeeding level of the client system is more complex. In this situation, the PHN is working with an aggregate of infants and toddlers. The focus of care being addressed is health promotion, focusing on positive measures such as education for healthy living and promotion of favorable environmental conditions as well as periodic examinations, including well-child developmental assessment and health education. Illness prevention is linked to the negative view of the absence of disease. Illness care is the care provision of someone with the disease.
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