The Health and Mortality Transition Does Not Typically Involve a

question 33

Multiple Choice

The health and mortality transition does not typically involve a

• A) shift in deaths from the younger to the older ages.
• B) greater control over the natural environment.
• C) shift in causes of death from communicable to degenerative.
• D) permanently greater variability in the ages at which people die.

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