According to Anderson and McFarlane's model, a community health assessment must in-clude:
1. Organized efforts to protect, promote and restore health.
2. Information about the subsystems and patterns of interactions among subsystems of the total community
3. Quantifiable data that can be used in a community health risk assessment.
4. Information about the demographics of the community
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A community health assessment must include information about the subsystems and interactions of the total community with the systems external to it.
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