One of the positive aspects of exporting U.S. technology globally has been to help improve the quality of health care through health innovations and information. A negative effect of introducing U.S. technology globally has:
1. Created inequities for health innovations.
2. Increased the spread of communicable diseases.
3. Marketed unhealthful products such as tobacco and fast foods to a new population.
4. Promoted economic growth and created job inequities.
Answer: 3
Explanation: 3. While rapid dissemination of health innovations and information from U.S. technology has benefited developing nations, it has also opened new markets and exposed these countries to the less desirable aspects of U.S. businesses, such as marketing by tobacco companies and the expansion of fast food companies. This has resulted in these populations adopting U.S. practices and higher rates of morbidity from cancer and obesity. The introduction of health innovations and information usually decreases communicable diseases, and economic growth increases do not necessarily create job inequities.
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