The Goal Established by the United States Public Health Service

question 6

Multiple Choice

The goal established by the United States Public Health Service regarding childbirth via cesarean delivery is to

• A) make cesarean delivery the standard method of childbirth by the year 2012.
• B) increase the incidence of cesarean deliveries from 24% to 30% of all births.
• C) reduce the rate of cesarean deliveries to 15%.
• D) reduce the number of days in the hospital following cesarean deliveries.

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Definitions:

Z-scores

A measure of how many standard deviations an element is from the mean. It is used in statistics to identify how unusual or typical a data point is.

Standard Normal Distribution

A normal distribution with a mean of zero and a standard deviation of one, used as a basis for comparing other normal distributions.

Less Than

A mathematical relation indicating that one quantity is smaller than another.

Z-scores

A statistical measurement of how many standard deviations an element is from the mean of its population.