Which Statement Best Describes the Health-Illness Continuum

question 7

Multiple Choice

Which statement best describes the health-illness continuum?

• A) Health is the absence of disease; illness is the presence of disease.
• B) Health and illness are along a continuum that cannot be divided.
• C) Health is remission of disease; illness is exacerbation of disease.
• D) Health is not having illness; illness is not having health.

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Definitions:

Distribution Shape

Describes the arrangement and frequency of data points in a dataset, indicating patterns such as normal, skewed, or uniform distributions.

Coefficient Of Variation

A measure of relative variability calculated as the ratio of the standard deviation to the mean.

Skewness

A measure of the asymmetry of the probability distribution of a real-valued random variable about its mean.

5-number Summary

A descriptive statistics tool that consists of the minimum, first quartile, median, third quartile, and maximum of a data set.