The population health nurse assists neighborhood residents to form a neighborhood watch to help control gang crimes. This best describes:
1. Vertical empowerment.
2. Internal empowerment.
3. Horizontal empowerment.
4. External empowerment.
Answer: 3
Explanation: 3. Horizontal empowerment is internal to the community and is reflected in the community's ability to solve problems by mobilizing its own resources. Vertical empowerment involves efforts to change power structures outside the community and to leverage outside power and resources to address community concerns and may involve organizing marginalized groups to make demands on the larger society. Internal and external are not terms used to describe empowerment in this description.
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