Life Expectancy
- Created by: miacampbell31
- Created on: 03-02-22 09:53
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- Life Expectancy
- The development of specialist health and social care provision
- Better living conditions such as those related to improvements in housing, income, ect.
- Improved working conditions leading to fewer industrial illnesses or accidents as a result of health and safety legislation
- Improvements in nutrition and improvements in technology leading to improvements in diagnosis and treatments.
- Advances in medicines, discovery in new drugs and vaccinations
- Better education, greater awareness of health, more awareness of risk factors for disease and so can reduce these.
- Increase in use of health services so problems identified and dealt with sooner.
- Improvements in lifestyle, e.g. walking groups, smoking cessation groups, alcoholic recovery groups.
- Improved preventative care programmes such as screening for different types of cancer.
- Wider availability of health and fitness facilities leading to improvements in physical health
- Advances in medical research leading to improved understanding and treatments.
- Improved access to support services, e.g. voluntary adgencies
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