Life Expectancy
Despite the increase in life expectancy over the last 200 years, not all groups of people have the same chances of good health. What factors affect health?
It is deplorable to recognize, but man is mortal. A human being grows older, so ability to adapt to the environment has being slackened with the years by increasing probability of death. Mostly, this process has internal character and decease in advanced age is natural. Nevertheless, the modern science has cast light on the substantial effect of environmental factor, behaviour pattern and socio-economic status to life span in last two centuries.
It should be noted, that vast majority of people in the past were not died a natural death and it occurred much earlier owing to external natural causes. Epidemic, crop failure, act of God befell the human race constantly and took many lives. It is difficult to believe, but as the hard stat reports the influenza epidemic in 1918 infected half a billion people across the world and claimed the lives of almost 50 million earthmen, more than died in World War I. It appeared in late spring without warning and scientists, doctors and health officials were unable to diagnose a problem which was spreading rapidly. Mercifully, the contemporary breakthroughs in immunization and vaccination have significantly decreased risk of its appearance in such scale. As an illustration, according to the data of the World Health Organization, if in 50th the quantity of victims of Cholera totaled 502 thousand, in the last decade the respective performance did not exceed 47 thousand fatal outcomes.
Meanwhile, by the expert’s estimation of Sixty-first World Health Assembly participants in Geneva, the chronic ailments as a heart condition, stroke and cancer are main cause of 60 percent of fatal cases in nowadays. The level of mortality from infectious disease will be declined at an early date whereas the figures of chronic illnesses will be grown. It is generally known that the risk of
It is deplorable to recognize, but man is mortal. A human being grows older, so ability to adapt to the environment has being slackened with the years by increasing probability of death. Mostly, this process has internal character and decease in advanced age is natural. Nevertheless, the modern science has cast light on the substantial effect of environmental factor, behaviour pattern and socio-economic status to life span in last two centuries.
It should be noted, that vast majority of people in the past were not died a natural death and it occurred much earlier owing to external natural causes. Epidemic, crop failure, act of God befell the human race constantly and took many lives. It is difficult to believe, but as the hard stat reports the influenza epidemic in 1918 infected half a billion people across the world and claimed the lives of almost 50 million earthmen, more than died in World War I. It appeared in late spring without warning and scientists, doctors and health officials were unable to diagnose a problem which was spreading rapidly. Mercifully, the contemporary breakthroughs in immunization and vaccination have significantly decreased risk of its appearance in such scale. As an illustration, according to the data of the World Health Organization, if in 50th the quantity of victims of Cholera totaled 502 thousand, in the last decade the respective performance did not exceed 47 thousand fatal outcomes.
Meanwhile, by the expert’s estimation of Sixty-first World Health Assembly participants in Geneva, the chronic ailments as a heart condition, stroke and cancer are main cause of 60 percent of fatal cases in nowadays. The level of mortality from infectious disease will be declined at an early date whereas the figures of chronic illnesses will be grown. It is generally known that the risk of