Which of the Following Is an Example of an Epidemiological

question 45

Multiple Choice

Which of the following is an example of an epidemiological transition?

• A) AIDS drugs prolong the lives of sufferers thereby affecting the disease's prevalence rate
• B) a highly contagious disease becomes spreads rapidly, increasing its incidence rate
• C) patterns of disease and mortality change as societies become more developed
• D) all of these

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Textile Mills

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An ideology that holds white people as superior to those of all other races, advocating for the social, political, and economic dominance of whites.

Muller V. Oregon

1908 Supreme Court decision that held that state interest in protecting women could override liberty of contract. Louis D. Brandeis, with help from his sister-in-law Josephine Goldmark of the National Consumers League, filed a brief in Muller that used statistics about women’s health to argue for their protection.

Supreme Court

The highest federal court in the United States, which has the ultimate appellate jurisdiction over all federal and state court cases involving issues of federal law.