FRHD 2060 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Autoimmune Disease, Psychoneuroimmunology, Food Security
5 Apr 2018
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Age at which a particular age cohort can expect to live. Has been increasing; women = men + 5: maximum longevity. Oldest age to which any individual of a species lives (~120 for humans?: active life expectancy. Ability to do things for yourself: dependent life expectancy. Factors influencing life expectancy: genetic factors. Doesn"t exactly say in the textbook, but alludes to significance: environmental factors. Social class (access to care: blue zones. Areas in the world here the trend is for people to live longer. Dramatic differences across the world: ethnic differences. Visible minorities have higher life expectancy: gender differences. More male babies die in infancy than female babies. Men allows stress to enter their lives more than women. Men often just internalize stress rather than using a support network: life trends in canada. If you make it to 65, your life expectancy becomes longer. Health: state of complete physical, mental, and social wellbeing; not merely absence of disease.
