154 types of,.,.-aste disp-0sal and garbage disposal system d. Air, water and land pollution industries within the community having health hazards associated,vith it air and water po Uution inde.-c 4. Cultural factors a. Variables that may break up the people into groups within the community such as: ethnicity social class language religion race political orientation b. Cultural beliefs and practices that affect health c. Concepts about health and illness c. Health and Dlness Patterns In analyzing the health and illness patterns, the nurse may collect primary data about the leading causes of illness and deaths and their respective rates of occurrence. If she has access to recent and reliable secondary data, then she can also make use of these. · 1. Leading causes of mortality 2. Leading causes of morbidity 3. Leading causes of infant and child mortality 4. Leading causes of maternal mortality 5. Leadio. g causes of hospital admission 6. Leading causes of clinic consultation 7. Nutritional status D. Health Resources The health resources that are available in the community are an important element of the community magnosis mainly because they are the essential ingredients in the delivery of basic health services. The nurse needs to dctemline manpow er, institutional and material resources provided not only by the state but those which are contributed by the private sector and other non-government organizations. 1. Manpower resources categories ofbealth manpower available geograph ical distribution of health manpower manpower-population ratio distribution of health manpower according to health facilities (hospitals, rural health units, etc) distribution ofhealth manpower according to type of organization (government, non-government, health units, private) quality of health manpower existing manpower development/po licies 2. Material resources health budget and expenditures sources of health funding categories of health institutions available in the commun ity 