PHNs utilize registries to identify children with delayed or missing immunizations. They subse-quently follow up with families by phone calls or home visits. Which of the following levels of practice is being implemented?
a. Systems
b. Community
c. Policy
d. Individual
ANS: D
The individual level of practice focuses on interventions that involve working with individuals, either singly, or in groups, and with families. Individual level intervention changes knowledge, attitudes, beliefs, practices, and behaviors of individuals. Community level interventions are car-ried out with the community as a whole. This level of intervention changes community norms, attitudes, awareness, practices, and behaviors. Systems level interventions change organizations, policies, laws, and power structures within communities. Policy is not a level of intervention de-scribed by "The Wheel."
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A) >l.0 mg/dl.
B)
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