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pragya sharda

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on: Jul 10, 2018
Why is the crude death rate not an accurate statistic to describe a particular population's overall health?
 
  a. It does not include age structure of the population as a variable.
  b. It looks only at deaths due to disease, not violence.
  c. It focuses solely on data from hospitals and deaths that occur there.
  d. The statistic is biased toward small populations and becomes inaccurate when large groups of people are examined.

Question 2

The occurrence of new cases of a disease is calculated as the __________.
 
  a. prevalence rate
  b. crude death rate
  c. mortality rate
  d. incidence rate


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jessicaduplan

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Reply #1 on: Jul 10, 2018
Answer to Question 1

Correct Answer: a

Answer to Question 2

Correct Answer: d


pragya sharda

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Reply 2 on: Jul 10, 2018
Thanks for the timely response, appreciate it

strudel15

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Reply 3 on: Yesterday
:D TYSM

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