Life expectancy

According to statistics from WHO (2015), the average life expectancy at birth of the global population increases from 64 years to 71.4 years in the period between 1990 and 2015. In spite of an increase of the average life expectancy, there is health inequality appearing in everywhere; in other words, part of population is vulnerable to variety of mental and physical ailments, due to several factors such as genetics, environment, lifestyle, socio-economic, health care and so on. Among a great…

longevity?, what are the factors that influence longevity? and how do factors influence longevity? In the following paragraphs, we go to answer these questions and introduce more information about this. Many authors define longevity as "long life" or "a life of great duration", generally they are people who live longer than the promised faith of the people. For biologists, the word longevity is defined as the expected average duration under ideal conditions. The longevity of a person can be a…

Geography- Canada covers a large portion of the northern area of the North American continent, Also, Canada has an extremely varied landscape. In various locations, it has mountains, including the Rockies, with several that border the Atlantic. In contrast, flat plans make up other areas. The highest point in Canada is Mount Logan which is in the Yukon. Language- Canadians speak a multitude of languages. Canadians speak English and French as their preferred language. English and French, the…

population would occur to compensate for exceeding the earth’s carrying capacity. Malthus believed that the limiting factors on the exponential growth of the human population included disease or famine, and social constraints including marriages late in life or insufficient resources for individuals…

Look at the back of your shirt, chances are it was made in India, by a child labor. Child labor has been an ongoing dilemma for centuries, due to India’s poverty rate. Child labor won’t stop anytime soon unless India’s government cracks down on the issue. The effects of child labor includes a minimized childhood, physical, mental, emotional, and social well being. In order to fix this problem India needs to create and better enforce child laws that makes attending school mandatory by limiting…

Research reported by Hay and Forrest (2006) showed that 84 percent of their findings illustrated a high correlation between self-control and criminal behaviors. The study used data collected from a sample of children within the United States. The study included children between the ages of 7 and 15. This study tested two hypotheses, the first hypothesis wanted to determine the initial point where most kids showed the greatest stability of self-control. The second hypothesis, “involved the role…

also decreased. Overtime, these discoveries and inventions spread out to the rest of the world lowering death rates and lowered death rates meant that the population would grow more rapidly than ever. Before the Industrial Revolution the average life expectancy was a low 35 years. Many babies died along with their…

many take a stab at analyzing how this affected the millions who still lived in the rural frontier of America. Even though urban population growth increased in the country, up by 250%, most Americans still lived the stereotypical farming and ranching life. There was indeed an economic revolution too, with the construction of the Erie Canal in 1825, increasing shipping and trade, and plantation farming was also boosting the economy with the sale of cash crops. One thing that is…

The first of these being; declining fertility. Fertility has fallen globally from 5 children per woman in 1950 to just over 2.5 in 2005, it is projected to fall further to just 2.0 by 2050. The second, is that of increases in life expectancy, global longevity has already increased from 47 years in 1950 to 65 years in 2010 and it is predicted to rise further to 75 years by 2050. The third driver, although not as fundamental as the first two, is significant variations…

its citizens’ health. While new studies found the average life expectancy has increased in the past few decades, stark discrepancies remain between the different provinces. The two new studies into China’s state of health were published in the medical journal the Lancet on October 26. The studies looked at life expectancy, causes of death as well as child mortality in the Chinese provinces. While the study found the average life expectancy to go up by 8.5 years from 1990, some provinces…