PSY 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Cardiovascular Disease, Cowpox, Pseudoscience
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September 18 - week 3 - chapter 7,8,9. There are a number of factors that drive life expectancy . One of the main ways to boost life expectancy at birth is through the reduction of infant and child mortality. If you were born in the year 1750, you would have a reasonable chance of dying before the age of 5 to one of the main diseases. The first vaccine was successfully trialed in 1796, for smallpox. It was an injection by a similar but much less fatal cowpox illness. Generally, your life expectancy goes up little and little every day you continue to stay alive. Even historically, a child that lived to age 10 had a pretty reasonable chance of making it to 30+ The trick really was making it to 10. Leading causes of death in adults in the us (from cdc) As we age, we have new experiences every day.
