The nurse is teaching at a community center about how the focus on care provision has shifted from the hospital to the community and a public health focus. The nurse teaches the community members that health care systems organized around acute, episodic care no longer suffice as a primary service model due to the complexity of contemporary health care, which requires a different care process to match new health realities. The nurse lists which of the following reasons for this?

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Health care systems organized around acute, episodic care no longer suffice as a primary service model. The complexity of contemporary health care requires a different care process to match new health realities. There are several reasons for the dramatic shift to community based health models as a primary source of health care delivery: demographics of the population with greater ethnic and racial diversity, longer life spans, serious economic challenges, health disparities associated with social determinants of health, globalization and significant skilled provider shortages, most notably, physicians and nurses. Technology advances in diagnosis and treatment, discovery of novel medications and treatments have reduced the incidence of premature death from acute health conditions.

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