Anthropologist and Physician Paul Farmer's First Step in Improving Health

question 19

Multiple Choice

Anthropologist and physician Paul Farmer's first step in improving health conditions in the rural community of Cange involved:

• A) assessing health-care needs by x-raying and collecting blood samples from residents.
• B) having the government provide physicians and nurses to help him conduct a health survey.
• C) providing clean drinking water to the community.
• D) asking the Catholic Church to send missionaries so that locals would give up beliefs in voodoo.
• E) burning the village to kill all bacteria, and relocating residents to a hilltop.

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