HDE 117 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Metaplasia, Carcinoma, Geriatrics
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Historical trends in aging (part 2, shorter lives, poorer health (us health in international perspective, the us is among the wealthiest nations, but far. Lecture 17 from healthiest: study purpose was to identify factors that contribute to mortality gap , 16 peer countries: australia, austria, canada, Netherlands, and the united kingdom: general findings, for many years, americans have a shorter life expectancy than people in almost all of the peer countries. Injuries and homicides: adolescent pregnancy/sexually transmitted diseases, hiv and aids, drug-related mortality, obesity and diabetes, heart disease, chronic lung disease, disability, recommendations, pursuing national health objectives, alerting the public, morbidity compression. Health expectancy concept: area under the dotted line is expectation of a healthy life: extension: have done nothing for quality of life. Compression: postpone onset of chronic disease: syllogism: compression of morbidity model. If morbidity may be defined as that period from the onset of the first irreversible chronic disease or aging marker until death.