By Conducting Community Needs Assessments, a Dietitian Allows Community Groups

question 26

Multiple Choice

By conducting community needs assessments, a dietitian allows community groups to:

• A) collect information about community attitudes and opinions regarding specific nutrition, health, and other issues.
• B) determine how the communities would prioritize the issues.
• C) provide the community the opportunity to determine policy, goals, methods, and procedures for solving problems.
• D) evaluate current programs and policies and available resources.
• E) All of these are correct.

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Definitions:

Concentration Difference

The variation in the amount of a substance in two areas, which can lead to diffusion, where substances move from an area of high concentration to one of lower concentration.

Selectively Permeable

Property of the plasma membrane that allows some substances to pass, but prohibits the movement of others.

Osmosis

The movement of water across a semipermeable membrane from an area of lower solute concentration to an area of higher solute concentration.

Plasmolyzed

A condition in plant cells in which the plasma membrane pulls away from the cell wall due to the loss of water through osmosis.