Aging Populations and the Determinants of Older Adult Health

作者: Mary McEniry

DOI: 10.1007/978-94-007-6979-3_1

关键词: MedicineDeveloping countryDemographyInfant mortalityDemographic transitionDiseaseLife expectancyStandard of livingChild mortalityGross domestic product

摘要: There was a dramatic improvement in life expectancy during the twentieth century, especially for those born between 1930s and 1960s, primarily due to reductions infant child mortality. Widespread public health interventions including advancements medical technology helped alleviate poor early conditions – serious infectious diseases, nutrition, harsh living environments by reducing exposure disease treating it more effectively. In some developing countries, this happened largely absence of improved standards living. The increase one demographic transitions century partially explains growth aging populations throughout world, particular low- middle-income countries twenty-first century. This is projected burden chronic such as adult heart diabetes—conditions which instances originate life—as age.

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