Which of the following best explains why most states have the ...

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Which of the following best explains why most states have the legal drinking age set at 21 years old?
 
  a. At 21 years of age, most Americans consider a person an adult.
  b. College is completed, and employment has begun by 21 years of age.
  c. Most 21-year-olds are self-supporting and no longer dependent on parents.
  d. The alcohol-related death rate rose alarmingly when drinking age was lowered to 18 years.

Question 2

Which of the following led to school nurses moving beyond the role of screening, assessment, intervention, and exclusion of children for communicable diseases?
 
  a. A communicable disease outbreak, which led to the requirement that all children be vaccinated against common infectious diseases
  b. Federal legislation, which required immunizations for communicable diseases
  c. Political movements such as temperance, which led schools to educate about the effects of alcohol and tobacco
  d. The need for inspecting schools to identify children who were ill and exclude them until they were no longer infectious

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Answer to Question 1

ANS: D
Alcohol use was highest during the 1980s, when states lowered the drinking age to 18 years of age. Lawmakers became alarmed at the increased rate of drinking and the increased number of alcohol-related deaths among 18- to 25-year-olds after lowering the drinking age and therefore reversed the decision. During the late 1980s, alcohol use declined after the minimum drinking age was reinstated to 21 years of age. Thus, the significance of the legal drinking age of 21 has to do with the problems experienced when the legal drinking age was lowered to 18, not that 21-year-olds are considered to be adults, employed, or self-supporting by this age.

Answer to Question 2

ANS: C
The federal government was not involved in school health because education and health are responsibilities of the state government. The first citywide vaccination programagainst smallpoxwas in the 1870s before school nurses were first employed in 1902. Other issues beyond treatment for minor problems quickly became part of school nurse school practice. In the early part of the twentieth century, the temperance movement led schools to teach about the effects of alcohol and tobacco.

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