Why were early public health efforts focused on ports and large cities?


Ports were a focus because passengers and crews arriving on ships could bring infectious diseases, such as cholera and yellow fever. Large cities were also the focus of public health measures because of dense living conditions among immigrants and the poor and the presence of businesses such as slaughterhouses, tanneries, skin dressers, glue boilers, and others that used animal parts and produced toxic wastes and noxious fumes.

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In order for an occupational therapist to use an assessment tool to evaluate a child with special needs, the tool has to be valid and unbiased, and the occupational therapist must

A) Administer the test without input or assistance from an occupational therapy assistant B) Share the test results with the child's parents as soon as possible C) Be knowledgeable and trained in administering and scoring that assessment tool D) Be part of a team that will also provide intervention to that child

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1 meter = __________ inches Fill in the blank(s) with correct word

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All personnel who work in close proximity to radiologic equipment should wear which of the following?

A) Lab coat B) Gloves C) Dosimeter D) Lead aprons

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