Which of the following processes best explains a decrease in mortality rates world wide A) increase rates of female literacy
B) increase rates of urbanization
C)Modern family planning method
D) better hygiene and sanitation practices
E) greater female workforce

D) better hygiene and sanitation practices

Explanation:

 A) is not the right answer. The literacy among the female population did help the development of the culture and society, but not with the decrease in mortality.

B) is not correct. The rise of urbanization actually had negative effects on mortality, if anything, as it destroyed the environment and cause pollution.

C) isn’t the correct answer. Planning of the family might have helped overpopulation, but it did not help to decrease the mortality rates.

D) is the correct answer. Better hygiene and sanitation practices helped weaken the spread of infectious diseases that were causing high mortality rates in the past. With better hygiene medical profession also started being better, so fewer patients died from unwell sanitation practices during the medical procedures. Therefore, fewer people got ill and medicine was better, so the mortality rates around the world started to decrease.

E) this is not the correct answer. The rise in the female workforce did not have to do much with a decrease in mortality.

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