BPS 1101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Vater Percussion, Antibiotics, Respiratory Tract Infection

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Biopharmaceutical sciences
• Course: BPS 1101
• Professor: William Ogilvie

Document Summary

We live in a unique time and place. Current life expectancy is higher than at any other time and history. Canada has one of the highest standards of living in the world longer life span and improved quality of life. Approximately 30 to 35 years for most of recorded history: last 6,000 years. Approximately 0 to 35 years throughout the stone age: 500,000 to 6,000 years ago. 82 years in 2009 (canada: most improvement over the last 150 years. Life span is an educated guess written records and archaeology. Important to remember that only important people make it into historical records, life expectancy is mostly the ordinary people. Most improvements in life span have happened over last 150 years. Variations smoothed out as records are not precise. Number of 35 years is an estimate made by combining data from various sources. Main causes of death: pneumonia, tuberculosis, influenza.