Identify 3 important indicators that you would like to promote as a community health nurse.

D1

Visit the Healthy People website using the imbedded link:

https://www.healthypeople.gov/2020/leading-health-indicators/2020-LHI-Topics

1. Review their 26 leading health indicators (LHI).

2. Identify 3 important indicators that you would like to promote as a community health nurse.

3. Discuss why these three indicators are important to you? (As mother and a nurse)

4. Identify a primary, secondary or tertiary prevention strategy that you would use to improve the health of people in the community using one of these selected indicators.

***For example, smoking among adolescents is one LHI; this may be important to someone if a family member or friend began smoking in high school and developed lung cancer. **A primary prevention strategy: could be educating high school students about the effects of smoking; **A secondary prevention strategy: would be to screening people who smoke for early detection of disease; **A Tertiary prevention strategy: would be smoking cessation to limit damage and disability.