Question

Enabling characteristics are the uninsured, homelessness, women and children, individuals with mental illness, chronic illness, disability, and HIV/AIDS. true or false?

Answer 1

Answer

False.

Enabling characteristics are forces that facilitate or impede individual, collective, or environmental change based on their level of availability.

Enabling factors or characteristics include family characteristics such as income, insurance coverage, access to health services and community characteristics such as availability of resources and region of the country.

Enabling factors, which include health-related skills, and resources facilitate a behavior's occurrence.