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jayhills49

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Community health has three common characteristics: status, structure, and process. Commu-nity health in terms of status involves biological, emotional and social parts. How is the bio-logical part often measured?
 
  1. Race/ethnicity
  2. Traditional morbidity and mortality rates
  3. Policy making and social change
  4. Homicide rates

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The Intervention Wheel model encompasses three levels of practice. The systems-level of practice involves:
 
  1. Community-level practice to increase the knowledge of the entire community
  2. Involving individuals and families in identifying health problems in the commu-nity
  3. Changing laws, policies, and practices that influence population-based issues
  4. Public health nurses identifying children with delayed or missing immunizations



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Answer to Question 1

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Biological community health is often measured by traditional morbidity and mortality rates, which can be found in The Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report.

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Systems-level practice consists of changing laws, policies, and practices that influence popula-tion-based issues.



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