PH 005 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Maternal Death, Socioeconomic Status, Johns Hopkins University
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Chapter 2: health determinants, measurements, and trends (part 1) 1st group of factors that help determine health relates to the personal & inborn features of individuals (genetic makeup, sex, age) Genetic makeup imperative to disease we get & how healthy we live. Sex = males & females are physically different. Life expectancy at birth = the average # of additional years a newborn baby can be expected to live if current mortality trends were to conite for the rest of that person"s life. The higher the life expectancy at birth , the healthier the country. Infant mortality rate - the # of deaths of infant under age 1 per 1000 live births in a given year . Neonatal mortality rate - the # of deaths to infants younger than 28 days of age in a youth year, per 1000 live births in that year.
