Jeremy Is Doing a School Report on How the Causes

question 15

Multiple Choice

Jeremy is doing a school report on how the causes of death have changed over the last century.He is surprised to learn that the primary causes of death in modern life are

• A) exactly the same as the ones people faced 100 years ago.
• B) behavioural rather than communicable;modern medicine can control most communicable diseases,but health-impairing behaviours and lifestyles are strongly related to early mortality.
• C) both behavioural and communicable;modern communicable diseases like HIV/AIDS and hepatitis kill just as many people as modern health-impairing behaviours.
• D) primarily communicable;mad-cow disease,HIV/AIDS,and hepatitis kill far more people than the illnesses that were common 100 years ago.

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