A nurse is using Anderson and McFarlane's model to complete a community health assessment. Which of the following information about the community would the nurse be collecting?
a. Resources available to promote health
b. Interactions among subsystems
c. Physical environment
d. Demographics
ANS: B
A community health assessment must include information about the subsystems and interactions of the total community with the systems external to it. This model does not address the resources available to promote health, physical environment, or demographics.
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