The local health department nurse manager has developed and implemented a disaster readiness plan as part of a community service. Community services:
a. Care for the specific needs of individual families in the community.
b. Focus on the treatment of communi-ty-wide problems rather than on individual health problems.
c. Do not include services provided by pub-lic health departments.
d. Provide personal health follow-up for all acute care hospitalizations.
B
Community services, including public health departments, are focused on the treatment of the community rather than that of the individual. These funds provide personal health services, care for communicable diseases, services for children with birth defects, mental health care, investi-gation of epidemiology, and treatment of bioterrorism threats and attacks. Monies are allocated also for environmental services and for health resources.
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