The Intervention Wheel framework is based on 10 assumptions. Assumption 2 is, "Public health nursing practice focuses on populations.". This implies:
1. A population is a collection of individuals who have one or more personal or en-vironmental characteristics in common.
2. The population at risk has many identified and unidentified risk factors.
3. The focus of public health nurses is on individuals in a population.
4. The determinants of health are focused on knowledge from international sources.
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A population is a collection of individuals who have one or more personal or environmental characteristics in common: this is the focus group of public health nursing.
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