Tertiary health care refers to
1. Health care delivered in the home.
2. Health promotion and illness prevention activities.
3. Management of chronic, complicated, long-term health problems.
4. Relatively serious or complicated care that has historically been provided to people who are inpatients in hospitals.
ANS: 3
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