Factors Affecting Mortality

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Factors Affecting Mortality

• LEARNING OBJECTIVES
• To identify the factors affecting Mortality
• To prioritise the factors affecting Mortality

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Age
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Gender
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Gender

• It may also be true that women are physically
  more active throughout life women do more of the
  'physiotherapy of daily living', such as getting
  the shopping in and doing the housework, and
  exercise protects against many age-related
  conditions.
• There is growing evidence that women are
  biologically tougher than men. For example, we
  now know that female hormones protect women from
  heart disease, at least until the menopause.
• Taken from ' All about ageing' Help the Aged

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Shelter/Residence
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Occupation
America's Most Dangerous Jobs

All data for calendar year 2000. Deaths per 100,000 employed. Sources Bureau of Labor Statistics, U.S. Dept. of Labor
Job Number Of Fatalities Fatality Rate
Timber Cutters 105 122.1
Fishermen 52 108.3
Pilots 230 100.8
Structural Metal Workers 47 59.5
Extractive Occupations 69 53.9
Roofers 65 30.2
Construction Workers 288 28.3
Truck Drivers 852 27.6
All Occupations 5,915 4.3
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Income

• Life in Zimbabwe is shorter than anywhere else in
  the world, with the average person not expected
  to live to 40, a new UN report says.
• Correspondents say poverty, because of the
  crumbling economy, and deaths from Aids are
  responsible for the decline.
• Taken from 'Zimbabweans have 'shortest lives''
  BBC News

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Literacy
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Access to Food
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Access to Food

• The hungry moans of the infants immediately
  strike you when you enter the therapeutic feeding
  centre in Gode town. There are 180 children here
  under the age of six, suffering from diseases
  related to severe malnutrition. Dr Zelalem, who
  runs the centre, says "The most common diseases
  are respiratory infections, diahorrea, pneumonia
  and tuberculosis. "Up to five children are dying
  each day of such diseases."
• Taken from 'Eyewitness Ethiopia's fatal
  famine'' BBC News

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Access to Medical Care

• Fewer children under the age of five are dying,
  thanks to immunisation programmes and
  anti-malaria measures, the UN children's agency,
  Unicef, says.Measles vaccinations, mosquito nets
  and increased rates of breast-feeding were said
  to have contributed to the fall. In sub-Saharan
  Africa, deaths from measles have been reduced by
  75 due to increased vaccination coverage. In
  Vietnam, child mortality dropped by about 40
  after 30,000 people were trained as health
  workers and paid to treat people in their own
  villages, Unicef said.
• Taken from 'Child mortality 'at record low''
  BBC News