Question

Which of these is a controllable risk factors for disease?

Answer 1

The right answer is poverty.

The other factors are uncontrollable such as age (which continues to evolve with time), climate (which changes independently of man), and vaccination is a means of prevention against disease and not a factor. of risk.

In poor countries, we continue to die from diseases that have almost disappeared from rich countries. 1. million people a year, or diseases of lack of health infrastructure, such as diarrhea that kills 1.8 million people (mostly young children). AIDS is also ravaging (2.8 million deaths) and the epidemic requires considerable effort. Many other diseases receive much less attention, so every year, malaria kills 1.3 million people.

Answer 2

The answer is: D. Vaccination

Risk factors is considered to be 'contrrolable' if people generally had the power to either prevent it or eliminate it.

Vaccines is considered to bea  controllable risk factors since most people had the power capability to do it (in non-thrid world countries at least), and it manag to prevent wide variety of fatal disease from occuring in the first place.