Which of the following statements is NOT true? a) Most health data collected by the government is used for political purposes. b) The population of the United States is less healthy than many other countries. c) The government collects extensive data on births and deaths of its people. d) Statistics can be used to calculate health risks.

[120 total points] (public health) in one of the largest human experiments ever conducted, in 1954 a randomized controlled trial was run to see whether a vaccine developed by a doctor named jonas salk was effective in preventing paralytic polio. a total of 401,974 children (ages 6–9), chosen to be representative of those who might be susceptible to the disease, were randomized to two groups: 200,745 children (the control group c) were injected with a harmless saline solution (a placebo) and the other 201,229 children (the treatment group t) were injected with salk’s vaccine.what was the point of giving saline solution to the children who didn’t get the vaccine? explain briefly.

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What can evoke feelings of terror and panic