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Assignment:

1. Using the link in supplemental materials for the 100 items that shaped public health, please select three items you are unfamiliar with and about how it impacted public health in the 20th century. Think critically about how different our lives would be if we didn't have those items.

2. Using the Urgent Public Health needs in the Decade of Action resource in supplemental materials, review the 13 items the World Health Organization has overviewed. Select the area that you think is MOST important to focus on. Why do you think it's more important than the other items? What are some suggestions to combat these public health crises? research as needed.

3. In developing countries, the major causes of infant mortality are mainly that of infectious diseases (Hoffman, 1992). As you've learned because of the control of many communicable diseases in the US, infant and child mortality has dropped.

However, in countries that still experience high rates of infectious disease, they also experience high infant/child mortality. Conversely, it is said that a symptom of high infant/child mortality is high fertility. Meaning, the risk of children not reaching adulthood influences parents to produce more children (Kaplan, 2013).

Explain your thoughts on the control of infectious disease and therefore the privilege people in the US are afforded in having greater autonomy in deciding family size - and what that means for the trajectory of their lives as parents. I.e. Greater financial/career choice freedom, ability to achieve desired birth spacing, etc.