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Reducing the period of morbidity means preventing or reducing the amount of time people spend being sick or disabled. This would result in significant gains in the quality of life as people would be able to spend more time being healthy and enjoying life. Delaying mortality (B) would also be desirable, but focusing solely on this could lead to neglect of improving quality of life. Early identification of risk factors (C) is important, but it is not as effective as preventing morbidity in the first place. Educating youth on the long-term effects of certain behaviours such as smoking (D) is important, but it is not as effective as reducing the period of morbidity for people of all ages. Choice E is incorrect as health promotion has been shown to have a significant effect on gains in quality of life.

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