SOC239H5 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: Congenital Disorder, Baby Boomers, Domestic Violence
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Most important predictor of mortality and morbidity. Infant mortality due to congenital anomalies and implicaions at birth. Ater birth, death rates decrease, then rise ater age 45. Common causes of death: childhood: accidents, cancer, congenital anomalies, adolescence-middlehood: accidents, cancer, suicide, ages 45-64: heart disease replaces suicide , ages 65-84: cancer, heart disease, respiratory disease, ages 85+: heart disease. Old age isn"t necessarily characterized by illness. 60% of deaths in canada occur ater 75. Due to increased life expectancy and declining ferility. Baby boom generaion: those born between 1946 and 1965. Concern: too few ppl in labour market to support the needs of the elderly. Feminizaion of aging: rise in the proporion of the populaion who are female in each older age group. (women make up larger porion of elderly than of young/middle aged) Concern: women have fewer health protecive factors than men which increase health care costs. i. e. , more likely to be poor, husband remarries younger.
