Factors contributing to longer life expectancy
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- Created on: 22-12-13 14:52
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- Longer life expectancy
- healthcare, treatment and prevention
- NHS introduced in 1948
- accident and emergency departments provide immediate help
- vaccination against serious diseased has led to the disappearance of polio (for example)
- hygiene, sanitation and safety
- provision of universal education (school leaving age raised to 15 in 1947) raised public awareness of how diseases are transmitted
- UK and EU health and safety laws regulate all hazardous aspects of people's lives, e.g. car seat-belt use and fire exits
- nutrition, diet and lifestyle
- campaigns about risks of food, alcohol or lifestyle by government
- public ban of smoking in 2007
- global connections
- nature of work has changed due to globalisation
- many dangerous occupations have become automated and most manufacturing and mining jobs have moved overseas
- medical research
- nature of work has changed due to globalisation
- healthcare, treatment and prevention
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