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Health and Illness
True False

1 .       People in the United States pay twice as much per capita for health care as do the French, yet French males live longer than males in the United States. [Hint]

 
 


2 .       The AMA is strongly in favor of a national health insurance program and has lobbied for its creation. [Hint]

 
 


3 .       Currently in the United States, 85% of new HIV infections involve male-to-male sexual contact or are due to intravenous drug use. [Hint]

 
 


4 .       Acute diseases are those which come on quickly, and are sometimes dramatic or incapacitating, from which a person either dies or recovers. [Hint]

 
 


5 .       Today, acute infectious diseases account for the majority of human deaths. [Hint]

 
 


6 .       To date, preventative medicine in the U.S. has had a considerably lower priority in terms of research and funding than crisis-oriented medicine. [Hint]

 
 


7 .       The life expectancy of women in the United States exceeds that of the life expectancy in all other countries. [Hint]

 
 


8 .       Those who are lower in socioeconomic status have substantially higher disease and death rates than their more affluent counterparts. [Hint]

 
 


9 .       People who are married and have children are healthier than those who are single or have no children. [Hint]

 
 


10 .       Research shows that investor-owned health insurance plans deliver a demonstrably lower quality of health care than not-for-profit plans. [Hint]

 
 






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