IMED1004 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Prostate Cancer, Esophageal Cancer, Disease Burden
17 Sep 2018
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Understanding australia"s health: identify the main causes of death, disease burden and the population patterns of major disease and injuries in australia. How we died 200 years ago, compared to how we die today. Our ideas about death, and the causes of death have changed over the past 200 years. We no longer worry so much dying from spontaneous combustion or near-misses from cannonballs. Instead, our attention has shifted to new threats, many of which have been come from changed to our lifestyle and environment. 5th highest life expectancy at birth for males and 8% highest for females. One of the lowest rates smoking among people aged 15 years and over. Better than average rate of colon cancer survival, ranking third best. Room for improvement: worst third of oecd countries for obesity among people aged 15, alcohol consumption is slightly above the oecd average. 33 years longer than people born in 1890.
