Which statement describes Community Preventive Services' targeting?

Which statement describes Community Preventive Services' targeting?

• A. They target populations as well as their subsets but never individual people.
• B. They target only individual people.
• C. They focus only on high-risk individuals.
• D. They are only for hospital-based interventions.

Answer: (A)

Community Preventive Services target populations and their subgroups, not individual people. The work is about implementing strategies, programs, and policies that reach whole communities or defined groups within them—things like county-wide vaccination campaigns, school-based prevention programs, or policy changes that affect everyone in a setting, rather than tailoring interventions to a single person. That broader, population-focused aim is what makes the statement correct. If an option suggested that interventions target only individuals, or only high-risk individuals, or only hospital-based settings, it would miss the emphasis on community-wide impact and the use of population-level approaches.

Community Preventive Services target populations and their subgroups, not individual people. The work is about implementing strategies, programs, and policies that reach whole communities or defined groups within them—things like county-wide vaccination campaigns, school-based prevention programs, or policy changes that affect everyone in a setting, rather than tailoring interventions to a single person.

That broader, population-focused aim is what makes the statement correct. If an option suggested that interventions target only individuals, or only high-risk individuals, or only hospital-based settings, it would miss the emphasis on community-wide impact and the use of population-level approaches.