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2 marksSocial and Preventative Medicine

CAPE Biology Unit 2 · 2010 · Paper 2 · Question 3(b)(ii)

Figure 4 shows data on deaths among women from laryngeal and lung cancer compared to breast cancer between 1975 and 2005.

Suggest TWO reasons for the difference in the shapes of the curves.

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  1. 3(a)(i)Define the term 'health'.[1 mark]
  2. 3(a)(ii)Differentiate between EACH of the categories of disease listed with respect to the cause of the diseases: physical and mental; infectious and non-infectious;…[3 marks]
  3. 3(a)(iii)Explain the difficulty in classifying protein-energy malnutrition as a non-infectious, physical, deficiency disease.[3 marks]
  4. 3(b)(i)Discuss the curves for laryngeal and lung cancer, and breast cancer.[4 marks]
  5. 3(b)(iii)Outline TWO challenges that health authorities in the Caribbean may face in reversing the trends for laryngeal and lung cancer.[2 marks]

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