The _____________________ proposes that one’s social and economic position (e.g., gender, race/ethnicity, and social class) determine one’s exposure to health-damaging risk factors as well as the presence or absence of health-protective factors.

a. Social status disease theory
b. Economic scale of disease risk theory
c. Fiscal reductive theory
d. Social production of disease theory


Ans: d

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