While teaching a health promotion class to a group of parents of children in a Head Start class,the nurse informs the parents that the most common preventable chronic infectious disease in U.S.children is
1. hepatitis A.
2. dental decay.
3. human immunodeficiency virus.
4. herpes.
Answer:2
Rationale:By 2 to 4 years of age,17% of U.S.children have already had dental decay,and by the age of 8,52% of children have experienced dental decay, making this the most common preventable chronic infectious disease in U.S. children.
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