AbstractCommunity analysis projects simultaneously conducted throughout a metropolitan area revealed a consistent contrast between community health priorities voiced by residents and by health care providers. Residents were primarily concerned with threats to environmental health, often inadequately understood, in their home communities. Providers focused on specific health needs of age aggregates, such as the elderly and children, within the existent health care framework. Findings underscore the critical issue of sample representativeness as a validity check in surveys purporting to ascertain “real” community health agendas. Similarly; the timeliness of an ecologic model for community health nursing practice is suppor
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