Factors affecting mortality
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- Created on: 20-09-16 14:24
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- Factors influencing mortality
- Economic
- Mortality affected directly and indirectly by economic conditions
- Great contrast in death rates across the low and high income countries
- High income
- can afford medical care, adequate food supply + sufficient nutrition
- Provision for care of unemployed and elderly
- mortality levels=low
- Life expectancy = 77years
- Low income countries- many still die from malnutrition + famine
- Medical care- inadequate
- often depend on aid packages
- Infant mortality + child mortality death is common
- could be prevented if funding for vaccinations were available
- huge increase in life expectancy years - average 67 years
- Social
- Closely tied with economic conditions
- LEDC- inadequate basic infasture
- many die from lack of clean water + basic sanitation
- Infant mortality is common as well as maternal mortality
- Mortality levels has fallen dramatically in LEDC
- improvements in maternal mortality
- MEDC- improvements in sanitation + better understanding of hygiene and vaccinations
- many wiped out
- MEDC experiencing an increase in mortality due to ageing pop.
- LEDC= dramatic fall in mortality- espically with younger members in society
- Political
- Gov has direct impact on mortality levels
- increase if gov. is illadvised
- Families after pro-natalist policy in 1960s = 30 mil dead
- Zimbabwe= gov. bought economic devastation
- life expectancy = 35 years
- wars and conflict (like Africa)
- MEDC= more attention to life style disease
- lung cancers, heart attack + diabetes
- UK= various cancer screening + vaccinations for 65+
- Finance for cures- all increase life expectancy
- Gov has direct impact on mortality levels
- Cultural
- Higher mortality rates among female + children - males more valued
- 1 child policy in china caused abandonment of females babies at birth
- Other parts of Asia e.g. India are required to provide dowry for daughters marriage = causing killing the child
- Environment
- Direct effect on life expectancy
- Industrial = higher respiratory causes - coal mining
- close to electricity - childhood cancers
- Atmosphere pollution + ozone - skin cancers
- Unclean water + little sanitation = cholera + typhoid
- LEDCs prone to more natural distaters - suffer more due to less resources
- Economic
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