death rate and life expectancy

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what is the death rate?

average no. of deaths per 1000 of the population every year: DECLINED leading to increased life expectancy

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life expectancy?

79 for men, 83 for women.

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  1. medical advances

  • antibiotics, surgery, transplant etc

  • vaccination programmes → decline in infectious diseases like measles and TB.

  • NHS founded in 1948 → free prescriptions, helped poor people.

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  1. improved living standards and nutrition

  • rapid decline in absolute poverty over the last 100 years

  • higher wages, better food, improved housing, better sanitation.

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  1. public health initiatives

  • public health screening programmes (e.g. cancer)

  • laws preventing adding harmful things to food and drink

  • Clean Air Acts

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  1. improved maternity care

  • better antenatal and postnatal care for mothers and babies

  • childbirth is safer

  • health visitors (decline in infant mortality rate)

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EVALUATION OF TJE CAUSES OF LOWER DEATH RAYE AND INCREASED LIFE EXPT.

  • postcode lottery → deprived areas people are more likely to die earlier e.g. covid 19 deprived areas doubled death rate

  • death rate varies between ethnic groups e.g. black women 4x more likely to die in childbirth due to institutional racism and unconscious bias.

  • austerity caused more deaths → nhs struggled with budget cuts, more elderly people died early because of cuts to their services e.g, meals on wheels and day centres.