The nurse making home visits to a number of adult women with disabilities monitors the clients closely out of awareness of which of the following?
1. Healthcare services for women who are disabled are more than adequate.
2. They receive more preventive care than do women without disabilities.
3. These women seldom have sexual relations.
4. They receive less preventive care and have greater yearly health expenditures than do women without disabilities.
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Explanation: 4. Women who are disabled receive less preventive care than women without disabilities but have 2.5 times the yearly health expenditures of women without disabilities.
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