Consider the most prevalent factors in the improved health and increased life span of Americans over the past few decades, and assume that they will continue to prevail over the next two decades.
Select the service most appropriate to include in a bill before Congress addressing a mandate for minimal health care coverage.
1. clinics to help people stop smoking
2. angioplasty to treat heart disease
3. prescriptions for medications to lower cholesterol
4. mandatory contributions of a percentage of the profits of health financing institutions for research to treat heart disease
Question 2
Considering the focus of nursing education as opposed to the education of a physician assistant, which service would a client be more likely to receive from a nurse practitioner than from a physician assistant?
1. teaching about a low-fat diet
2. a prescription for a cholesterol-lowering medication
3. cardiac stress testing
4. information that taking an aspirin a day can help prevent heart disease
Three ways that factors affect mortality in response to changes in population density.
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