Which of the following actions by Florence Nightingale demonstrates her role as an epidemiologist?
A) She convinced other women to join her in giving nursing care to all the soldiers.
B) She demonstrated that a safer environment resulted in decreased mortality rate.
C) She obtained safe water and better food supplies and fought the lice and rats.
D) She met with each soldier each evening to say goodnight, thereby giving psychological support.

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Nightingale examined the relationship between the environment and the recovery of the soldiers.Using simple epidemiological measures,she was able to show that improving environmental conditions and adding nursing care decreased the mortality rates of the soldiers.Nightingale used statistics to document decreased mortality rates when the environmental factors were improved.Asking other women to assist with providing nursing care,obtaining safe water,and meeting with each soldier are not interventions that demonstrate the use of epidemiology (the relationship between the health events and th determinants or factors that influence those patterns).

Which of the Following Actions by Florence Nightingale Demonstrates Her