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dejastew

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How did Edwin Chadwick's ideas help decrease disease in the nineteenth century?
 
  a. The minimum wage was increased leading to improved quality of life.
  b. Parish workhouses where poverty-level children labored for their room and board were closed.
  c. Social reform legislation resulted in changes such as sidewalks.
  d. The new emphasis on individual responsibility encouraged people to act to protect their own health.

Question 2

Which variable has a major influence on a community's health?
 
  a. Behavior choices made by persons in the community
  b. Number of health care providers and hospitals in the community
  c. Quality of the public safety officers (police officers, firefighters, etc.)
  d. The number and credentials of public health officials in the community



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Answer to Question 1

ANS: C
Edwin Chadwick's Report on the Sanitary Conditions of the Labouring Population of Great Britain led to legislation for social reform, including child welfare, factory management, clean water, sewers, fireplugs, and sidewalks. This report did not address increasing the minimum wage, closing parish workhouses, or increasing individual responsibility.

Answer to Question 2

ANS: A
Individual behavior choices and environmental factors are responsible for about 70 of health outcomes. Individual choices are affected through interaction with other individuals, and their mutual social and physical environments. Health care providers are responsible for only 10 of the outcome. The quality of public safety officers and number of public health officials have not been identified as major contributors to the determinants of health.



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