PSY 3128 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Coronary Artery Disease, Cardiovascular Disease, Blood Vessel
8 Mar 2017
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Chapter 2 pages 35, 36 (selective compensation with optimization) Average longevity: age a cohort can expect to live to. Increases throughout history due to elimination of diseases and better child birthing. Maximum longevity: the oldest age to which an individual of a particular species can hope to live. Active life expectancy: living to a healthy independent old age. Dependent life expectancy: years of living after losing your independent. We hope that our active le will increase and our dependent le will shorten -- hope to be healthy for as long as possible: environmental factors (toxins), lifestyle (diet, exercise), genetics, social class. Industrialized countries: women tend to live about 7 years longer than men. Health: absence of any acute or chronic, physical or mental disease. Wellness: want to go beyond just absence of disease but living as best as you can.
