In: Nursing
QUESTION 12
Poor people have higher mortality rates for all of the following reasons EXCEPT:
Poor nutrition |
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Adverse environmental conditions |
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More stress |
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Genetics |
Answer. Genetics
Rational: Genetics is gene and it variation transferred from parents to offspring nothing do with poor economic status people.
1. Poor nutrition
Rational: Low socio economic people can’t afford to have good nutrients and this lack of nutrients would cause multiple health problems such as low immunity to fight with infection due to poor intake of protein. Disease like marasmus and kwashiorkor causes death in children (Protein and calorie malnutrition).
2. Adverse environmental condition.
Rational: Poor people can’t afford to have good sanitation and chlorinated water and this would lead them to have adverse environmental conditions such as poor sanitation and environmental pollution causes more epidemic diseases to grow such as cholera and malaria
3. More stress
Rational: Low economic people difficult to cope with daily living expenses and this may lead them to have more stressful life.