"In 1991, cholera reemerged in Latin America for the first time in nearly a century, rapidly spreading from Peru to neighboring countries. While oral rehydration therapy and municipal water chlorination were well-established, cost-effective technologies, their deployment was severely hindered. Decades of rapid, unplanned urbanization had left millions in informal settlements without piped water or sewage systems. Furthermore, economic stabilization programs and debt crises during the 1980s had led to massive cuts in public health funding and infrastructure maintenance. Consequently, while the medical technology to treat and prevent cholera existed, social inequalities and economic constraints restricted its access, demonstrating the limits of globalization's benefits."
Based on the passage, which of the following best explains how economic and social factors limited the effectiveness of medical technologies during the 1991 Latin American cholera epidemic?
- Rapid urbanization and public spending cuts prevented the development of necessary sanitation infrastructure to distribute preventative technologies.Cevap
- BThe agricultural innovations of the Green Revolution successfully resolved the ecological challenges of malaria by aligning with global environmentalist movements to eliminate chemical pest control.
- CLatin American governments rejected international health aid to resist direct colonial rule and territorial annexation by Western superpowers.
- DThe global spread of consumer culture resulted in complete cultural homogenization, which automatically equalized public health infrastructure and eradicated regional disease disparities.