This pattern of rising life expectancy has been reproduced in many other high-income countries around the world (Kannisto, 1994 Kannisto et al., 1994 Rau et al., 2008). By June 2010, when the National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) released its most recent life tables for the United States-for 2006-the average life expectancy at birth was 75.1 years for men and 80.2 years for women, compared with just 47.9 years for men and 50.7 years for women for the period 1900-1902 (Arias, 2010). Advances in medical technology, particularly in relation to the treatment of heart disease and stroke, along with healthier lifestyles, improvements in access to health care, and better general overall health before age 65, enabled continued improvements in life expectancy throughout the second half of the 20th century (Fried, 2000). Improvements in the prevention and control of major childhood infectious diseases and in nutrition, housing, hygiene, and medical care resulted in an increase in life expectancy of about 4 years each decade throughout the first half of the 20th century. Great advances have occurred in life expectancy in the United States over the last century. Difference Between Life Expectancy in the United States and Other High-Income Countries
0 kommentar(er)
