Demography : Deaths
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- Created on: 30-05-18 12:30
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- Deaths
- Reasons for the decline:
- Improved Nutrition
- Thomas McKeown (1972) argues that it's halved the death rate and was important in reducing the number of deaths by TB.
- However, McKeown doesn't explain how women live longer than men.
- Better nutrition improves resistance to infection.
- Thomas McKeown (1972) argues that it's halved the death rate and was important in reducing the number of deaths by TB.
- Medical Improvements
- After the 1950's, antibiotics were introduced as well as immunisation, blood transfusion, improved maternity services etc.
- Smoking and Diet
- Harper says the reduction of smoking is the cause for the great fall.
- However, obesity had replaced smoking as the new lifestyle epidemic in the 21st Century.
- Harper suggests we're moving into an 'American health culture'.
- Public Health Measure
- The improvement of housing, purer drinking water, laws to combat the adulteration of food and drink and improved sewage disposal methods.
- Other Social Changes
- During the 20th Century there was : the decline of dangerous manual jobs, smaller families = less spreading of infection, greater knowledge of disease, lifestyle changes, higher incomes.
- Improved Nutrition
- Life Expectancy
- Death rates decreasing = life expectancy increasing. Males born in England in 1900 lived until 50. Males born in 2013 lived until 90.7.
- Reasons for low life expectancy in 1900 was because of infant mortality etc.
- Class, gender and regional differences
- Women generally live longer than men.
- People living in the North live shorter than in the South.
- Working class men are 3 times more likely to die before 65.
- Walker (2011) = people living in poorer areas of England die on average 7 years earlier.
- Reasons for the decline:
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