HSS 3105 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Sub-Saharan Africa, Nutrition Transition, Non-Communicable Disease
11 Jan 2016
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2. 5 babies born in the world today it used to be 5* fertility rates are declining with technology increase global life expectancy is 70 years. 80% of adults of the world today is literate. Health is considered an asset or a resource. Added to the definition to focus on what people"s goals are. Health status indicators- a way to measure your health. Focus a lot on mortality, morbidity rates, life expectancy (quantitative) infant mortality rates maternal mortality rates, # of prescribed medications, high. Shift focus to other factors like how are people rating their quality of life, rating of your own health, work and school attendance, look at perceived health. Adolescents girls are less likely to go to school when they are menstruating. Life expectancy- average number of years that a person can expect to live at birth ( conditions are fairly stable) Morbidity- incidence or prevalence of ill health, disease, some disabilities.
