A nurse attended a seminar on community-based health care. Which information indicates the nurse has a good understanding of community-based health care?
a. It occurs in hospitals.
b. Its focus is on ill individuals.
c. Its priority is health promotion.
d. It provides services primarily to the poor.
ANS: C
Community-based health care is a model of care that reaches everyone in the community (including the poor and underinsured), focuses on primary rather than institutional or acute care, and provides knowledge about health and health promotion and models of care to the community. Community-based health care occurs outside traditional health care institutions such as hospitals.
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