A community identifies cardiovascular disease as a priority need because its mortality rate is four times higher than the rate identified in Healthy People 2020 . The approach to identifying this need was:
a. Proactive
b. Reactive
c. Inactive
d. Interactive
C
The inactive approach defines the problem based on the existing health state of the population to be served.
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