The public health nurse (PHN) knows that he must approach a public health problem with an understanding of the related underlying risk factors in order to develop effective nursing interventions
He must also consider that these risk factors can be either ____ based or ____ based.
A. Disease; individual
B. Intervention; Government
C. Epidemic; population
D. Individual; population
ANS: D
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