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Activity 4

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Concepts of Health and Illness: Activity 4

 

Activity 4: The Effectiveness of Biomedicine in the care of infectious diseases   

 

From the data set out in the two figures below, what can you deduce concerning the factors responsible for the significant reduction in deaths from Respiratory Tuberculosis and Whooping Cough over the course of the 19th and 20th centuries ?

 

Respiratory Tuberculosis

 

Whooping Cough

 

Answers to Activity 4

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