You are the nurse preparing the community health agency report on risk factors in the community. Based on your knowledge of risk factors and associated deaths in high-income countries, such as the United States,
what do you anticipate the leading risk factor will be?
A) High cholesterol
B) High blood pressure
C) Physical inactivity
D) Smoking
Question 2
You are the nurse preparing a presentation about WHO World Health Statistics Report for 2008. What would you highlight about the statistics in the presentation?
A) Maternal morbidity is declining too slowly.
B) The gap in coverage in the four key intervention areas of family planning, maternal and neonatal care, immunization, and treatment of sick children remains wide.
C) The number of people living with diabetes mellitus continues to rise but is lower than previously expected.
D) Use of insecticide-treated nets to prevent malaria has increased and the poor do benefit from malaria interventions.
Patients should be encouraged to bring to their health care visit all the substances that they take,
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