The student nurse is learning about the past history of child health and health care in the United States. Which of the following statements accurately reflects the condition of health care in the past and current centuries?
A) In past centuries in the United States, the health of the country was better than it is today due to the simpler style of living.
B) In the current century, mortality rates are high, but life expectancy has increased due to technological advances.
C) In the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries urban public health improvements made cities healthier places for growing children.
D) By the late twentieth century unintentional injuries rather than infectious diseases had become the leading cause of death for children older than 1 year old.
D
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