SOCA02H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Cardiovascular Disease, Parasitic Disease, Epidemiological Transition
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By 2013, life expectancy had doubled, rising to 79 years for men and 84 years for women (p. 484) People around the world who do not reach the average of 80 years for men and 86 years for women of life expectancy are being deprived for social reasons. Please note the shit in the types of diseases afecing the canadian populaion. Leading causes of death, canada, 1901 and 2007. Formal record for longest living person was louise calment who passed away in 1997 at age 122. Think about the changes in the world they witnessed. 1876 alexander graham bell made the irst successful phone call. 1887 sherlock holmes made his irst appearance in a publicaion. 1920 first commercial radio show aired radio becomes dominant form of media communicaion television available in most homes 3,000 channels and nothing to watch 30,000 shows on neflix and nothing to watch. Record holder for men lived to 116 in japan.
