QUESTÕES DE PROPOSIÇÕES MÚLTIPLAS
Cada Questão de Proposições Múltiplas consistirá de 5 (cinco)
afirmações, numeradas de 0 0 a 4 4, das quais algumas são
verdadeiras, as outras são falsas, podendo ocorrer que todas as
afirmações sejam verdadeiras ou que todas sejam falsas.
As alternativas verdadeiras devem ser marcadas na coluna
V
(coluna das dezenas) e as falsas, na coluna
F (coluna das
unidades).
Atenção: As questões de números 26 a 30 referem-se ao texto
apresentado abaixo.
September 13, 2007
Child Mortality at Record Low; Further Drop Seen
By DONALD G. McNEIL Jr.
For the first time since record keeping began in 1960, the
number of deaths of young children around the world [TO FALL]
below 10 million a year, according to figures from the United Nations
Children’s Fund being released today.
This public health triumph has arisen, Unicef officials said,
partly from campaigns against measles, malaria and bottle-feeding,
and partly from improvements in the economies of most of the world
outside Africa.
The estimated drop, [PREPOSITION] 9.7 million deaths of
children under 5, “is a historic moment,” said Ann M. Veneman,
Unicef’s executive director. “But there is no room for complacency.
Most of these deaths are preventable, and the solutions are tried
and tested.”
Interestingly, Unicef officials said, the new estimate comes
from household surveys done in 2005 or earlier, so they barely
reflect the huge influx of money that has poured into third world
health in the last few years from various sources. For that reason,
the next five-year survey should show even greater improvement,
they said.
The most important advances, Unicef said, included these:
Measles deaths have dropped 60 percent since 1999,
thanks to vaccination drives.
More women are breast-feeding rather than mixing formula
or cereal with dirty water.
More babies are sleeping under mosquito nets.
More are getting Vitamin A drops.
There are still wide disparities. The [HIGH] rates of child
mortality are found in West and Central Africa, where more than 150
of every 1,000 children born [TO DIE] before age 5. In the wealthy
countries of North America, Western Europe and Japan, the
average is about six.
The improving economies of India and China have helped
pull world figures upward. More girls are getting education and jobs,
they marry later and they have fewer children, more of whom
survive. In general, Ms. Veneman said, the countries that did best
concentrated on extending simple measures to rural areas, and
focusing on inexpensive prevention rather than expensive care.
(Adapted from http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/13/world/1)
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