Final answer:
Stage 2 of the Epidemiological Transition Model is marked by receding pandemics, due to improvements in healthcare, sanitation, and agriculture.
Step-by-step explanation:
Stage 2 of the Epidemiological Transition Model is characterized by B) receding pandemics. This stage, as is typical in the model, highlights a period where society begins to gain control over infectious and parasitic diseases due to improved sanitation, agriculture, and healthcare. It is uniquely characterized by a rapid decrease in death rates while birth rates stay high, creating rapid population growth. It is not characterized by persistent degenerative diseases, delayed degenerative diseases, or pestilence and famine, which mark other stages in the model.
For a comparison, option A) degenerative diseases and D) delayed degenerative diseases mark later stages of the model when more developed societies start seeing an increase in chronic disorders associated with old age. The concept underlined in C) reemergence of infectious diseases and E) pestilence and famine pertain to elements of stages before Stage 2 where public health infrastructure is underdeveloped or deteriorating and infectious diseases prevail or resurface.
Learn more about Epidemiological Transition Model