A public health nurse (PHN) is asked by the hospital administration to find out why there are so many pediatric asthma patients coming to the emergency room (ER) for treatment and to develop a plan to reduce admissions by 10%. The nurse needs to untangle the multiple risk factors involved in order to determine what type of intervention should be developed. Which framework should the PHN most likely use to understand the multiple factors contributing to asthma in this population?
A) The epidemiological triangle
B) The ecological model
C) The epidemiological constants
D) The web of causation
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