PSY333H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Hypoesthesia, Assisted Suicide, Midlife Crisis
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Lecture 9 psychological issues in advancing and terminal. Lower infant disease, shift in disease (before infectious now non-communicable diseases) Infant morality rate: ratio of deaths to live births. Relatively high compared with western europe: used to be 6th place 27th in 2007. Birth to 1 year: congenital abnormalities & sudden infant death syndrome (sids) Sids: 3 babies die/week in canada: babies simply stop breathing, more likely to occur in lower-class urban environments, when baby is put to sleep on stomach, back to sleep campaign (1999) reduced sids by. From ages 1-15, the causes shift to accidents (i. e. poisonings, falls) and childhood leukemia. Leukemia: cancer of bone marrow excess white blood cells + Supervision (know where it s safe to bike ride/soccer, severe anemia (80% survival rate today!) wear helmet), complicated medicine bottle caps, hazardous railings, electric outlets. Majority of kids won t have to die from it.
