Hypothesize That The Causes Of Death In The Last Century

In the 21st century society there are two current factors that are very obvious in affecting patterns of health. These are that of social class affecting health and lifestyle choices.

There are many different factors that can increase your chance of becoming ill and dying. The different factors are social class, gender, age and ethnicity. The different social groups I will look at are social class and gender. I am going to look into how these affect health; I will also explain the pattern and trends. I am using gender because it fits in with the sociological perspective feminism and social class fits in with Marxism.

Many historians claim that this caused even higher mortality which reveals as the negative effects of

The primary reason for the vast increase in life expectancy in developed countries in the 20th century is universal clean drinking water and very high level of public and personal hygiene. These two improvements account for probably 80%of the life expectancy. Overall life

Leading causes of death in this world is cancer. Anybody can get it. If you're one hundred years old or a newborn, it doesn’t matter if you are poor or have lots of money. Women and men both can get it. Nowadays, everybody in this world knows somebody who has cancer. It could be a family member or a friend of the family. There can be many family members who have it. One in two men and more than one in three women get cancer in this lifetime(1). Only 5% to 10% of cancer is inherited from one of your parents(1). If you have cancer in your family you can get what its called genetic testing. When you get cancer it can change everything.

As the second part of this reflection paper, I selected a book ‘A Short History of Disease’ by Sean Martin. He is a writer and filmmaker also known for his other famous books like The Knights Templar, Alchemy and alchemists, the Gnostics. His films include Lanterna Magicka: Bill Douglas & the secret history of cinema. The most alluring thing which conceives me to cull this book is a history of the disease, as a medical professional, it's always tantalizing to know from where all these begins and this book reaches up to my expectations as it started from the first ever recorded disease in the history of mankind. He isn’t lying when he say this a history of the disease. He starts from the earliest bacteria to evolve on the earth, long before there was anything around to infect. This book is divided into seven chapters, each chapter describes the history of diseases in a particular era. Chapter One: Prehistory, Chapter Two: Antiquity, Chapter Three: The Dark and Middle Ages, Chapter Four: The New World, Chapter

Scholars explore the notion of melancholy in the 16th century and 17th century by presenting its causes, symptoms, cures, and origins. Interestingly, they all incorporate and refer to the work of Robert Burton’s The Anatomy of Melancholy to support their argument.

Alzheimer is a disease that has and continues to affect the elderly cognitively and as a result decline in their daily functioning. This slow moving death causes the elderly to go through a transition that sometimes can lead to unintentional self injuries. Not only has this disease affected the the individual, but has extended to their family members who has to learn new methods of assisting their loved ones as well as how to cope as a caretaker. On a personal level, I have friends whom grandparents suffer from AD and I’ve noticed that it changes the dynamic of the family and the individual learning new ways to function. It was interesting to learn that in the 80’s, AD was the fourth leading cause of death in the United States, but this gave

? In the 1900’s the major cause of death in America was pneumonia, tuberculosis (TB), and diarrhea and enteritis which is known today as diphtheria. These infectious diseases was the cause of 1/3 of deaths in America. The population shift in the 1900’s with lots of immigration which led to major over -crowding in poor housing areas and cities. There was also the non- existence of public water and or waste disposal systems that we have today. This type of environment led to continuous outbreaks of infectious diseases like tuberculous, influenza, yellow fever and malaria to name a few. People were getting sick and dying by the millions, there was epidemics everywhere. Federal and State’s labored to make better the sanitation and hygiene of

Another major contributing factor for poor health is changes in diet and food resources because with the European settlements their foods were either destroyed or being inaccessible. Since the introduction of tea, flour and sugar they have become the staples of the community which lead to more and more diseases. “Diabetes and kidney failure are in epidemic

The purpose is to compare and contrast treatments and causes for The Black Death from the seventeenth century to today’s modern medicine.

In 1347, Europe was hit by the most deadly disease ever existed. Over the course of 2 years, 50 million people died in Europe alone, reducing the population by 66%. Over 80% of the total population in Mediterranean Europe succumbed to ‘The Pestilence’. Over 100,000,000 people died worldwide, reducing the global population by 25%. If 25% of today’s global population died, that would be 1781250000 dead, or one billion, seven hundred and eighty one million, two hundred and five thousand people. That’s over 33 times more than the population of England today! And the death didn’t stop there. People blamed ‘Gods Wrath’ on the non-Christians, which at the time in Europe were mostly Jews. 2000 Jews were slaughtered and burned during February 1349 in Strasbourg along the French-German border; this however did not stop the

When people hear the word “forensics” it evokes a mindful of graphic, vibrant images that bring about death and crime. It’s a trigger word that reminds people of gore, autopsies, DNA, death investigations, and bullet holes. This word means so much more than just those few examples of what forensics hold. Forensics is such a broad term- it is “scientific tests or techniques used in connection with the detection of a crime”, so with that given definition forensics could mean many different things. You could go from someone who works as the forensic computer technician who can hack into a sexual predator’s hard drive in the matter of seconds to a forensic anthropologist who studies bones in a legal case. All though there

year. In 20th century the leading causes for chronic disease are smoking, alcohol and immoderate

threats are now posed by diseases in which lifestyle play a role in the causation and or