When engaging in population-based health care, a goal of the nurse would be to do which of the following?
a. Maintain access to health care services c. Reduce health care disparities
b. Maintain quality of health care services d. Increase health care delivery costs
C
The goals of population-based health care include reduction of health disparities among different
population groups, improvement of access to health care services, improvement of quality of health
care services, and reduction of health care delivery costs.
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