Which of the following is true of chronic diseases?
a. They were the leading cause of deaths in preindustrial societies.
b. They are often caused by an organism or parasite that infects or invades the body and disrupts its functioning.
c. They can be treated effectively by continuous health care and require changes in people's lifestyle.
d. They have a fairly quick, and sometimes dramatic and incapacitating, onset.
Question 2
The initial reactions of people in political and economic power to the spread and control of acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS) implied that ________
a. societal reaction to all diseases results from a complex intertwining of biology with political, social, and cultural considerations
b. people respond to all diseases with the same sense of urgency and importance irrespective of its nature and reasons for origin
c. the powerful elites in a society can influence people's attitude to certain diseases only to a small extent
d. the stigma and socio-cultural opinions attached to a disease become obsolete when people realize that the suffering those affected is enormous
A proposed molecular mechanism of prion diseases.
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