Global Health in the Twentieth Century

question 40

Multiple Choice

Global health in the twentieth century:

• A)was a struggle to balance guarantees of social well-being with fiscal and political realities.
• B)witnessed a slight increase in young child mortality and childbearing women.
• C)between 1800 and the mid-twentieth century the world population doubled.
• D)the potential for global epidemic diseases decreased.
• E)large pharmaceutical companies were able to meet the global demand for medicine.

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