SYG-1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: World Health Organization, Infant Mortality, Integrated Geography
14 Mar 2019
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Chapter 11 health, health care, and disability. Health: per world health organization (who) health is a stage of well being including physical, mental (psychological) and social. Socially defined and changes over time and between cultures (e. g. , obesity, alcohol consumption, epilepsy, homosexuality). Health care: all behavior focused on improving health. Central: medicine institutional systems involving scientific diagnosis, treatment and prevention of illness. Life expectancy: an estimate of the lifespan of person born in a particular time. Lower in developing nations from parasitic and infectious diseases. Controlling for race, sex and ses, us ranks 29th out of 176 countries. (greece and cuba had highest life expectancy in 2010 statistics. ) In 84 countries, life expectancy is 70 years today vs. 55 in 1990. Health indicator - infant mortality: number of deaths per 1000 in first year of life. (morbidity illness; mortality death rate. ) Fourteen percent of children in low-income nations die first year. Us health expenditures almost doubled in past 10 years.
