KINE 3350 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Nuclear Family, Humanitarian Crisis, Old Age Security
24 Nov 2018
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Japans life expectancy is the highest at 85. Between 1900 & 1988 life expectancy went up a lot due to sanitation. we had better nutrition. Vaccines also became more popular at this time life expectancy between 1988 & 2018 increased because of medical technology, drugs, & medical research life expectancy from 2018 to 2030 will probably go up even higher. Morbidity: it is the portion of diseased people in the country. Medicine will be focusing on the compression of morbidity, so that people can live healthier for longer: in canada we spent around 9 years with chronic diseases before we die. Japan has 66,000 people over 100: they"re having problems with their elderly population, because the children aren"t as keen to looking after their parents as they used to be. This is because they are very active and have lots of health campaigns about not drinking and smoking. France is #3 because of their red wine.
