Posts: 3,675,934
Threads: 734,342
Joined:
Sep 2021
Reputation:
5
Over the past decade, which one of the following had the greatest increase?
A. Pregnancy rate for teenagers
B. Poverty rate for children under age 18
C. Infants born weighing less than 2500 g
D. Mortality rates for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
E. Mortality rates for lung cancer
Posts: 3,675,934
Threads: 734,342
Joined:
Sep 2021
Reputation:
5
A. Pregnancy rate for teenagers
Posts: 3,675,934
Threads: 734,342
Joined:
Sep 2021
Reputation:
5
This is why all of us want to go to the US :-p
Posts: 3,675,934
Threads: 734,342
Joined:
Sep 2021
Reputation:
5
D is correct answer
In the past decade, the mortality rate for chronic obstructive pulmonary diseases has increased 25% so that it now is the fourth leading cause of death in the United States.
For women, the increase was more than 58%. The increase was relatively small for white males (5%). For black males and females under 55 years of age, the mortality rate was 2 times that for white males and females.
Lung cancer mortality rates increased over 12%, but for women the increase was 40%.
The percent of low weight births (less than 2500 g) increased slightly from 6.7 to 7.3% of all live-born infants. The percent of low weight births increased to 6% for infants of white mothers and to 13% for infants of black mothers.
The poverty rate for children under age 18 declined to 20%, but considering that they make up less than 30% of the population, they constitute 40% of the poor; for black children it was 3 times that for white children and for Hispanic children it was 2.4 times that for white children.
The pregnancy rates for teenagers declined for the fourth consecutive year to 56.8 births per 1000 teens between the ages of 15 and 19.
