Savannah Is a Student Studying Public Health

question 32

Multiple Choice

Savannah is a student studying public health. She examines rates of tobacco use and finds that people with lower socioeconomic status are more likely to use tobacco products. She is interested in behavioral interventions and conditions of low socioeconomic status that contribute to tobacco use. To start she should read books related to ______.

• A) migration
• B) medicalization
• C) demedicalization
• D) social epidemiology

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Definitions:

Cystic Fibrosis

A genetic disorder that affects the lungs and digestive system, characterized by thick mucus production.

Dominant Allele

A dominant allele is a variation of a gene that will express its trait over another variant, known as the recessive allele, when present in a pair.

Recessive Allele

A variant of a gene that must be inherited from both parents to be expressed in the offspring, in contrast to a dominant allele.

Carriers

Individuals who possess one copy of a mutated gene for a recessive genetic condition but do not exhibit symptoms of the condition themselves, though they can pass the gene to offspring.