Community Partnership Is Necessary Because Lay Members Often Have a Vested

question 28

Multiple Choice

Community partnership is necessary because lay members often have a vested interest in the success of efforts to improve the health of their community. Most changes should:

• A) Involve the community residents only
• B) Use nurses as their source of information and leadership
• C) Rely on the power of local officials
• D) Include a variety of disciplines

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Standard Normal Curve

The graphical representation of a normal distribution that has a mean of zero and a standard deviation of one, used in probability theory and statistics.

Z-score

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Percentile

An indicator showing the value beneath which a certain percentage of data points in a collection of data lies.

Continuous Random Variables

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