Death rate
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- Created on: 07-05-15 12:27
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- Men Health Care (death rate)
- Nature/ characteristics of information presented
- Text 3 is a media source from the Daily Mail
- Text 3 has both qualitative and quantitative data.
- As it shows statistics on the death rate in general then relates to men and the reasons for the increase in their life expectancy.
- The statistics came from the ONS-secondary official statistics
- Definition
- The death rate definition is the number of deaths per 1000 per year in a population.
- Trends/ patterns/ key features shown by data
- The death rate in UK is decreasing
- This data was from 2012.
- Text 3 is invalid as it comes from a media source
- Potential support which could be offered by government/ charities/ independent organisations
- The NHS could be support in order to help get men to have a longer life expectancy.
- Explanations for the trends
- Better medical care
- Advances in technology and in the NHS has meant there has been better medical care
- Healthier lifestyles
- Men more aware of the dangers of smoking and drinking
- Changes in jobs
- Less men are doing hard manual labour such as working in mines
- Better medical care
- Potential research method questions
- Sample: snowball
- Questionnaire are more reliable as they are easy to repeat and may be easier to access participants by doing a questionnaire-could post it.
- Potential advantages and disadvntages
- Advantages of ageing population: more people around to teach in primary schools for the baby boom.
- Disadvantage of ageing population: increased need for services suited for the elderly and less housing available for younger people due to elderly more likely to be living alone in big houses
- Nature/ characteristics of information presented
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