作者: Mary McEniry
DOI: 10.1007/978-94-007-6979-3_1
关键词: Medicine 、 Developing country 、 Demography 、 Infant mortality 、 Demographic transition 、 Disease 、 Life expectancy 、 Standard of living 、 Child mortality 、 Gross 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.