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World Population
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6.8 billion
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World Median Age
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28
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USA Population
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310 million
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USA median age
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37
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USA population grows at the rate of
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365/hr
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Oregon population
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3.8 million
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Oregon median age
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36.3
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US gender composition
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51:49 (W:M)
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USA life expectancy total
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78.1
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Male Life Expectancy
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75.3
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Female Life Expectancy
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81.1
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Leading Cause of death in USA
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heart disease
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Leading cause of death in 3rd world
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AIDS
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Avg amount of children/women in US
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2.1
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Median Household income
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$52,000
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Healthiest State
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Minnesota
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Least Healthy State
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Mississippi
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Most Livable State
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New Hampshire
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Least Livable State
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Mississippi
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Safest State
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New Hampshire
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Least Safe State
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Nevada
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US Prison Population
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2.4 million
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Annual homicide rate
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18,000/year
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Top reason for DR. visit
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general check up
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Top Dr prescribed drug
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antidepressants
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Smoking rate in US
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21%
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Male Smoking rate
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23%
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Female Smoking rate
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18%
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Avg. height of American man
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5'10
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Avg. height of American woman
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5'4
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World's tallest man (all time)
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Robert Pershing Wadlow (8'11)
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World's tallest man (living)
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Leonid Stadnyk (8'4)
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World's shortest man (all time/living)
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Khagendra Magar (1'10)
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World's heaviest person
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Jon Minnoch (14000 lbs)
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Ideal Cholesterol
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<200 mg/dl
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Ideal blood Pressure
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<120/80
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Body Mass Index
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Weight (lbs) x 703 / height^2 (ins)
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First Fermented Beverages
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China
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First medical system, where?
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Vedic System, Indus Valley (take care of yourself)
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Hairdressers & Health?
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also dentists
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Imhotep
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known as worlds first doctor
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Tooth decay?
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because of sand in bread
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Akhnaton
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Marfan syndrone
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Herophilus
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first dissections
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85% of world still uses what kind of medicine?
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herbal (China)
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Chang Chung Ching
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most famous Chinese doctor, treatise on typhoid fever
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Hippocrates of Cos
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father of modern medicine (patient confidentiality)
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Nero
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Roman emperor who first wore eyeglasses
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Bubonic Plague
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originated in Asia, Yersinia Pestis, 1/2 population in known world died
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Tobacco
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Natives smoke, Europeans introduce it, does not take off in Europe. "America built on tobacco", east Asia has highest rate of smokers
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First American Medical treatise
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Thomas Thatcher on smallpox
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40,000 french troops
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killed by yellow fever in haiti
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Gregor Mendel
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studied heredity. dominant vs. recessive genes
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Louis Pasteur
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started process of heating food to kill bacteria. Pasteurization
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Joseph Lister
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Surgical Scrub (wash to elbow for 10 mins)
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Marie Curie
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Nobel Prize for Chem/Physics. x-ray and radiation
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Edward Jenner
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Father of immunization. smallpox/cowpox
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Rabies
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Virus, Pasteur
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Diphtheria
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Bacteria, Gaston Ramon
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Tuberculosis
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Bacteria, Albert Calmette & Jean Gerin
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Tetanus
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Bacteria, Gaston Ramon
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Influenza
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Virus, US Army
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Measles
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Virus, John Enders & Tom Peebles
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Polio
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Virus, Jonas Salk
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Coca Cola
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Dr. Josh Pemberton. used as medicin
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Johns Hopkins
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top research hospital in America
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Vitamins
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Sir rederick Hopkins (vital amines)
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Tubes of Toothpaste
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Dr. Washington Sheffield. (tubes of paint)
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Alexander Fleming
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penicellin
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X-Rays
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Wilhem Roentgen, cathode rays
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First successful heart transplant
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1967 Dr. Christian Bernard
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Ebola
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90% fatality rate
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DNA structure
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double helix
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Kyoto Protocol
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major countries meet to try to reduce greenhouse gas emissions
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WHO population that is unhealthy
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95%
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PDX today
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heroin capital of west
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youth overweight
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2/3
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% of Americans w/out medical insurance
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16%
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