Within a community there is an elevated high-school dropout rate and its high school students are experiencing a decreased sense of self-worth.Based on this data, the community is at highest risk to experience an alteration in which of the following functional health patterns?

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The elevated high-school dropout rate is a risk factor in the values-beliefs pattern, and the decreased sense of self-worth is a risk factor in the self-perception-self-concept pattern.Risk factors from several pattern areas may form clusters of risks for certain groups.Elevated high-school dropout rates and a decreased sense of self-worth may lead to crimes that the community cannot adequately control or cope with.

Within a Community There Is an Elevated High-School Dropout Rate