There have been several reasons for the decline in death rate, and one of the reasons include the improved nutrition that the UK has achieved during the 1900s. McKeown argues that improved nutrition accounted for up to half the reduction in death rates, and better nutrition increased resistance to infection and illnesses. Multiple medical improvements also reduced the number of deaths in the UK. The improved medical knowledge, techniques and organisation after the 1950s helped in the decline of the death rate as the improvements included the introduction of antibiotics, immunisation against certain infections as well as blood transfusions, better maternity services and the introduction of the NHS in 1949. There has been another increase in improved medical practice as recently, bypass surgery and other similar developments have reduced heart disease and its related deaths by one third.
Examine the reasons for and the consequences of the fall in death rate since 1900. (24 marks) The death rate counts the amount of people who die per thousand of the UK population per year. Since 1900, the death rate has almost halved from 19 to 10 per thousand. Although the population has rose considerably since 1900’s. During the early 1900’s, there has been certain factors which increased the death rate such as the 2 world wars and the flu epidemic in 1918.
Thomas McKeown (1972) also points out that improved nutrition is also part of what has led to a decreasing death rate, he believes it is accountable for up to half the reduction in death rates. He argues that improved nutrition is particularly important in reducing the number of deaths from tuberculosis (TB). Better nutrition increased resistance to infection and increased the survival chances of those who did become infected. This meant less people died form these diseases, reducing the death rate and then, forcing population to grow.
In the article “No Babies?” by Russell Shorto, he discusses how the population in Europe is declining drastically. He discusses how the birthrate has dropped drastically from 6.0 to 2.9 today. He discusses how the birth to death rate is very unbalanced as well, which is a result of the declining population. He takes in to consideration how the European population worldwide will decrease from 12.5% to only 5%. He discusses how it is feared that the European culture will be lost due to the fact that the majority of the European population is mainly made up of older generations and few younger.
These resources are used to portray the chronological changes in the Chinese society and how these fluctuations have impacted the suicide rates. The decade of the 1990s began with some of the highest suicide rates around the world, however, the major economic and political shifts consequently reduced the suicide rates by the year 2000. The society started getting used to the novel financial and societal model and finally began reaping the benefits. The decade of the 2000s presented some vital alterations in the model of the Chinese suicide. For example, both urban and rural suicide rates decreased, male suicide rates became higher than those of the females, and elderly suicide significantly increased.
This led to a dramatic fall in the poverty rate of the United States. There was a dramatic fall in the poverty rate when Johnson first announced the War on Poverty in 1964. This is because he followed his announcement by creating Medicaid, Medicare, greater federal housing spending, and other programs to fight the increasing poverty rate. In 1964, the poverty rate was estimated to be 19 percent; ten years later, it dropped to 11.2 percent (Matthews). This shows that with the commencement of the War against Poverty, the United States was slowly improving the lives of American citizens.
Jenner found that the boy fell ill to cowpox but after recovering, he was immune to smallpox thus the method of vaccination was born. This discovery was important as it was an improvement on the previous method of inoculation. Inoculation involved deliberately infecting someone with the desired disease but death rates were extremely high as a result of this practise. However Jenner’s discovery of the smallpox vaccination meant that more lives were saved because there were fewer deaths associated with the vaccination technique and it became more popular than inoculation - eventually becoming a widespread method of disease prevention as it is still in use today. The factors of enquiry and science & technology played an important part in the build up to the development of the smallpox vaccination.
Legalizing the organ trade can not only save the lives of dying patients, it can also improve the standard of living of thousands of others. | 8 | Identify the premises and conclusion of the argument. | Premises-The world’s poor should not be prohibited From selling their organs. Doing so results in the deaths of patient in need of transplant and continued poverty for people who are willing to give. Conclusion-Legalizing the organ trade can not only save lives of dying patients, it can also improve the standard of living of thousands of others.
It states that because the costs of healthcare continue to increase so does the number of uninsured which in return increases the costs even more. “Primary care coverage for the uninsured is the first necessary step to reform and can be more cost effective and tolerable than a major system.” (Stephens, J. H., & Ledlow, G. R., 2010). Hospitals and physicians would spend much less on uncompensated care and patient’s health care debts would be much less. The idea of providing basic care as a right for all citizens would not only help the healthcare systems cost issues it would also increase the quality of healthcare. Everyone would then have the availability to preventative services and treatments meaning that less people would be likely to wait to seek medical care for an acute illness and the number of people attending emergency care departments would decrease.
According to the United States Census Bureau, roughly 55% obtain insurance through an employer, while about 10% purchase it directly. About 31% of Americans were enrolled in a public health insurance program: 14.5% (45 million – although that number has since risen to 48 million) had Medicare, 15.9% (49 million) has Medicaid, and 4.2% (13 million) had military health insurance (there is some overlap, causing percentages to add up to more than 100%). The percentage of non-elderly workers with employer-sponsored coverage has been falling, from 68% in 2000 to 61% in 2009, the latest year for which data is available. While the primary cause of falling rates of insurance is the rising cost of health care for employers, the economic downturn since