Jeremy Is Doing a School Report on How the Causes

Multiple Choice

Jeremy is doing a school report on how the causes of death have changed over the last century.He is surprised to learn that the primary causes of death in modern life are

A) exactly the same as the ones people faced 100 years ago.
B) behavioural rather than communicable;modern medicine can control most communicable diseases,but health-impairing behaviours and lifestyles are strongly related to early mortality.
C) both behavioural and communicable;modern communicable diseases like HIV/AIDS and hepatitis kill just as many people as modern health-impairing behaviours.
D) primarily communicable;mad-cow disease,HIV/AIDS,and hepatitis kill far more people than the illnesses that were common 100 years ago.