Wk 4 and 5: Health & Mortality

Assigned Readings:

- Weeks CH5: Morbidity & Mortality

Supplemental Readings:

Lesson Objectives:

- describe general trends in morbidity and mortality
- discuss the health and mortality transition
- explain the impact of lowering infant mortality on population growth
- read and describe charts including
  - rectangularization of mortality
  - deaths by age groups
- define and describe the difference between life span and longevity
- explain the most common measures of mortality including CDR (crude death rate) and ASDR (age-specific death rate)
- read and explain the uses of a Life Table

Suggested Activity:

- Handout charts for
  - rectangularization of mortality
  - deaths by age groups
  - life table (Activity - How to Read a Life Table)

Life Expectancy on the Rise - CNN video

Life Expectancy on the Rise in Africa - CNN video

US Life Expectancy Drops Again - Washington Post video

Link to Published Map

Life Expectancy by US State

Measure of America calculations using mortality counts from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Health Statistics. Mortality – All County Micro-Data File, as compiled from data provided by the 57 vital statistics jurisdictions through the Vital Statistics Cooperative Program. Population counts are from the CDC WONDER Database.

CH5: Morbidity & Mortality ppt

Weeks12E_Ch05_healthMortality

http://pages.uwc.edu/keith.montgomery/Demotrans/demtran.htm

Mini Ice Age = 1300 - 1850

Some of the Major Infectious Diseases

Cholera
Bubonic Plague
Measles
Influenza
Typhoid

NPR - Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
- she passed away in 1951, but her cancer cells (called HeLa) were the first immortal line of cells that were used (and continue to be used) to study effects of toxins, drugs including vaccines before tests on humans
Timeline | History of Vaccines
Read more about the vaccine schedules at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
- smallpox vaccine known in China, Asia, and Africa since 1000
- 1796 - Edward Jenner smallpox vaccine (eradicated in the US 1979)
- Late 1940s:
  - Smallpox (eradicated in US 1934)
  - Diptheria* (eradicated in US 2012)
  - Tetanus*
  - Pertusis*
    - *given in combination as DTP
- 1950s
  - 1956 - Salk's Polio Vaccine
- 1960s
  - 1963 - Measles* (eradicated in the US in 2000)
  - 1967 - Mumps*
  - 1969 - Rubella* (eradicated in the US in 2004)
    - *1971 combined into one called MMR
- 1980s
  - 1980s - Hepatitis B