SOCI 335 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Epidemiological Transition, Allostatic Load, Smallpox Vaccine
9 Mar 2016
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Midterm: list of readings to cover on mycourses. Starting from 1800, trend towards declining mortality rates, low fertility, longer life and aging population. Increase in life span, due to shift from communicable to degenerative diseases. With development, better sanitation, medical technology so people living longer more susceptible to die from degenerative diseases. Since degenerative diseases kill at older ages, what happens to dependency ratios: age of pestilence an famine. Fluctuation in death rates due to epidemics infectious and parasitic diseases. Olshansky and ault (1986: the age of receding pandemics. Mortality peaks were smoothened out by rapid improvements in sanitation and standards of living, with medical improvements. People will survive later more likely to experience degenerative diseases. Lee (2003) the demographic transition: mortality decline. Mortality declined beginning in europe in the 1800s. Improved nutrition impact of transportation: the age of degenerative and man-made diseases. Pace of mortality declines even further, as it reaches the limit.
