BIO SCI 100 Study Guide - Final Guide: Sarah Knauss, Pertussis, Infant Mortality
25 Mar 2017
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: why we live 40 years longer today than 1880, george w: 67, Infant mortality: death during first year of life, life expenctancy at birth sensitive to infant mortality. 16. 5% 1900, 0. 7% 1997: john b. mckinlay"s article: questiona contribution of medical measures to decline of mortality, medical measures have little contribution to decline in mortality in u. s. since 1900. Leading causes of death in 1900 was other(40%): all these diseases: measles, scarlet fever, tb, typhoid, pneumonia, influenza, whooping cough, diphtheria, poliomyetlis = no effect on mortality, treatments released while there was already a sufficient decrease in disease.
