Epidemiologic transition is BEST defined as the

A. contribution of Americans' highly mobile life styles to making death less immediate and intimate.
B. change in cultural attitudes toward death as a significant determinant of how we live our lives.
C. trend toward more rapid and sudden death from epidemics.
D. shift in disease patterns characterized by a redistribution of deaths from the young to the old.


Answer: D

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