Community Health Has Three Common Characteristics: Status, Structure, and Process

question 13

Multiple Choice

Community health has three common characteristics: status, structure, and process. Community health in terms of status involves biological, emotional and social parts. How is the biological part often measured?

• A) Race/ethnicity
• B) Traditional morbidity and mortality rates
• C) Policy making and social change
• D) Homicide rates

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Definitions:

Operant Conditioning

A method of learning that occurs through rewards and punishments for behavior, thereby influencing the probability of that behavior being repeated.

Classical Conditioning

An educational method involving the repeated pairing of two stimuli, resulting in a reaction initially provoked by the second stimulus being eventually provoked by the first stimulus.

Secondary Reinforcer

A stimulus that gains its reinforcing power through its association with a primary reinforcer.

Primary Reinforcer

A naturally reinforcing stimulus, such as food or water, that does not require learning to become desirable.