RELIGST 2M03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Bronchitis, Jiali District, Qingming Festival
20 Jul 2016
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Average life expectancy 75. 44 years of age with women living longer than men (men at 72, and women at 76) 3 major risks are: dietary risk, high blood pressure and smoking. Cancer is the leading cause of death in china. Increase in cancer diagnoses in both rural and urban china. In the next 10 years, cancer burden will not be lowered; there is only hope that it will be stabilized. Number of cancer deaths will climb from 2. 5 million to 3 million by 2020. Due to rapid industrial growth in rural china leading to villages known as cancer villages that are next to harmful factories. Cancer mortality has risen 80% in the last 30 years. Government had declared most river as unsafe for human contact . Large stock piles of toxic waste in remote settlements that are far away from the jurisdiction of the law. A man"s 15-year-old son died of cancer, and his mother remains inconsolable.
