PUBHLTH 1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 27: Baby Boomers, Lipid Peroxidation, Oxidative Stress
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Relationship of health & wealth - health is proportional to wealth. Health is not proportional to number of physicians. More spending does not improve health, may even increase mortality rates. Rand health insurance experiment: for people with generous insurance, many health care services may be wasted. For poor and chronically ill, free care does not improve health status. 28- aging (chapter 29 in the 4th edition) Physiological vs chronological age - chronological age is how old you really are and physiological how old you feel: hayflick - separated human cells in laboratory environment. Realized that cells could live up to 100 years, but due to diet do not live as long. Damage theories - one class of theories of aging is based on the concept that damage, either due to normal toxic by-products of metabolism or inefficient repair/defensive systems, accumulates throughout the entire lifespan and causes aging.
