NURS 434 Community

community health - identification of needs and the protection and improvement of collective health within a geographically defined area - Prevention of health problems = Anticipating and averting problems or discovering them as early as possible to minimize potential disability and impairment > Three levels... Primary: Keep illness or injury from occurring... Secondary: Efforts to detect and treat existing disease... Tertiary: Reduce the extent and severity of a health problem to its lowest...