reasons for the decline in death rate
- Created by: Abigail Conway
- Created on: 06-05-15 15:48
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- Reasons for the decline in the death rate
- Medical improvements (after 1950's)
- introduction of antibiotics
- blood trransfusion
- higher standards of midwifery and maternity services
- immunisation
- Public health measures + environmental improvements
- improvements in housing
- purer drinking water
- improved sewage disposal methods
- Other social changes
- decline of more dangerous jobs such as mining
- smaller families reduced the rate of transmission of infection
- greater public knowledge of the causes of illness
- Improved nutrition
- increased resistance to infection and increased survival chances of those who did become infected
- accounts for up to half the reduction in death rates
- doesnt explain why women lived longer than men despite getting less food
- Medical improvements (after 1950's)
- Improved nutrition
- increased resistance to infection and increased survival chances of those who did become infected
- accounts for up to half the reduction in death rates
- doesnt explain why women lived longer than men despite getting less food
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