If a nurse is focusing on prevention and establishing a public health intervention for an illness by following the natural history of a disease, he or she is
A. Making sure that everyone in a certain area receives treatment
B. Studying the biological components of the disease
C. Looking at medical trends of clients who have had the disease
D. Going to the autopsies of the patients who have died
ANS: C
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