Infants and Children Who Suffer from Malnutrition Have a Higher

question 25

Multiple Choice

Infants and children who suffer from malnutrition have a higher mortality rate as a result of

• A) starving to death because of the lack of food.
• B) decreased resistance to infectious diseases.
• C) diarrhea due to drinking unsanitary water.
• D) the limited access to health care.

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Definitions:

Proportion

Refers to the ratio of a part or portion of the total count, quantity, or amount in a given context.

Freshmen

Students in their first year of study at a high school or university.

Standard Error

A statistical measure that shows the precision of a sample's mean estimate of a population mean.

Sampling Variability

The variability of sample statistics over different samples of the same size from the same population, due to chance.