Which Public Health Strategy for Reducing Risk Factors Related to Disease

question 3

Multiple Choice

Which public health strategy for reducing risk factors related to disease best explains the following example: Higher smoke stacks are used to more widely disperse air pollution from a factory?

• A) Reducing the high risk
• B) Reducing the average risk
• C) Narrowing the spread of the risk
• D) None of these is correct.

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Definitions:

Standard Deviation

A measure of the amount of variation or dispersion in a set of values, indicating how much the values deviate from the mean.

Exponential Random Variable

A type of random variable that represents the time between events in a Poisson point process, characterized by a constant mean rate.

Mean

The average of a set of numbers, calculated by dividing the sum of these numbers by the count of numbers in the set.

Standard Deviation

A tool for assessing the scope of variation or dispersion among a series of figures.