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What is the role of epidemiology in community and public health?

It provides an overall plan to address a community’s health needs.
It links cause and effect determinants of a community’s health status.
It monitors communicable illnesses that can affect a community’s health.
It studies the distribution of health and illness in a population.

Explanation

Answer: D - Epidemiology studies the distribution of health and illness in a population and it uses this knowledge to control the development of a community’s health problems. It examines the factors that contribute to illness, disease, and lack of health.

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