A nursing student develops a teaching plan about hand washing to present to a group of elemen-tary school children at the local school. Which of the following public health interventions is be-ing implemented?
a. Collaboration
b. Surveillance
c. Health teaching
d. Screening
ANS: C
Health teaching communicates facts, ideas, and skills that change knowledge, attitudes, values, beliefs, and practices of individuals, families, systems, and/or communities. Collaboration com-mits two or more persons or organizations to achieve a common goal through enhancing the ca-pacity of one or more of the members to promote and protect health. Surveillance describes and monitors health events through ongoing and systematic collection, analysis, and interpretation of health data. Screening involves identifying individuals with unrecognized health risk factors or asymptomatic disease.
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