Healthy Life Expectancy Refers to the Number of Years a Person

question 23

Multiple Choice

Healthy life expectancy refers to the number of years a person can expect to live

• A) while covered by Medicare.
• B) without chronic pain, disability, or significant illness.
• C) without pain or short-term or long-term disability.
• D) without cancer or diabetes.

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Definitions:

Tectonic Plates

Massive, irregularly shaped slabs of solid rock that make up Earth's lithosphere, moving and interacting at their boundaries.

Transitional Links

Evidence of evolution, typically fossils, that bear a resemblance to two groups that in the present day are classified separately.

Archaeopteryx

An extinct dinosaur species known for having features of both birds and reptiles, considered a key piece of evidence in the evolution of birds.

Dinosaurs

A diverse group of reptiles of the clade Dinosauria, known from fossil evidence to have lived during the Mesozoic Era.