HTH 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: World Health Organization, Opioid Epidemic, Global Health
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Choosing healthy behaviors now will provide immediate benefits. Choosing health now will help bring long term rewards. Stress and anxiety are the top 2 impediments to academic performance. Prevalence is a measure often used to determine level of morbidity. Leading causes of death in the us. All ages: diseases of the heart, cancer (chronic) 15-25: accidents, suicide (acute, in the moment) So healthy choices you make today can really impact you in later life in terms of chronic diseases. Life expectancy has almost doubled over the last 100 years (47 years in early 1900s to 78. 6 in 2016) In 1900 over 30% of all deaths occurred among children under the age of 5 (infectious diseases was leading cause of death) With the development of vaccines and antibiotics, life expectancy increases dramatically and the leading cause of death shifted to chronic diseases. Drive everywhere, people don"t walk as much anymore (more car crashes)
