CFD 3250 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Preventive Healthcare, Public Health, Clan Home

• School: UCM
• Department: Child and Family Development
• Course: CFD 3250
• Professor: Victoria Voland

Document Summary

The experience of death in america: death-related experiences include: Death-related practices: what behaviors & rituals do we associate with death, chapter 2. Five principal features define contemporary encounters with death: death rates, average life expectancy, causes of death, dying trajectories, locations of death, encounters with death in. 21st century american society: death rates, # of people who die: Ex: day, month, year, 10 years, 100 years, etc. Typically expressed per 1,000 or 100,000 persons: changes in encounters with death in american society, death rates ~ overall. Important changes: dramatic reduction in overall death rates since 1900. Infant dr was 24 x higher in 1900 than in 2007; still the. U. s. with 6. 7 infant deaths per 1,000 live births lags behind many other developed countries, such as: Maternal death rates: 608/100,000 in 1915 to 12. 7 in 2007, half of maternal deaths in 2007 preventable, changes in encounters with death in american society, average life expectancy.