Which most accurately describes how disease patterns have changed from 1900 to the present?
A) Morbidity and mortality from infectious diseases have increased.
B) Morbidity and mortality from unintentional injuries have decreased.
C) Morbidity and mortality from chronic degenerative conditions have decreased.
D) Morbidity and mortality from noninfectious diseases have increased.
Ans: D
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Primarily as a result of improved public health practices in the early 20th century, life expectancy in the United States, the United Kingdom, and European countries, as well as in other developed countries, rose. With it, a change in the patterns of disease occurred. No longer are infectious diseases the leading causes of death; the morbidity and mortality from noninfectious diseases and chronic degenerative conditions have increased.
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