PUB HLT 150 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Junk Food, Data Collection System, Health Promotion
Document Summary
Nowadays, 65"s look like 65"s than the 85"s. But during 85"s, chronic diseases start to prevail. 1900-10: for every 1k women, 130 children were born. 1930: great depression - birth control was prevalent = the use of condoms - account for the crests. The baby boom generation - soldiers came back from ww1 - start a family/ few children born . 2. 01 children per woman - must have more than children per couples because not all children grow up (premature death, unintentional deaths, natural deaths + women deciding not to have children) 1 in 5 women - not have children by the reproductive periods. In 1900, high infant mortality rates (due to mumps, whooping coughs, infectious diseases) Only about 41% born in 1900s make it to age 65 (survive considerable age) 1949-51: change from infectious diseases to chronic diseases as primary cods. 2011: 85% born live to age 65 (extrapolated from current deaths rates, assuming no further fluctuations.
