A nurse is using health status indicators to complete a community assessment. Which of the fol-lowing best explains what the nurse is doing?
a. Interviewing key informants in the com-munity
b. Examining morbidity and mortality rates in the community
c. Surveying local businesses in the commu-nity
d. Observing community members
ANS: B
Health indicators are numerical measures of health outcomes, such as morbidity and mortality, as well as determinants of health and population characteristics. Generally, these data are from sec-ondary sources such as websites or printed materials. Interviewing key informants, surveying lo-cal businesses, and making observations are all methods of primary data collection.
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