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| Health trends over the last 50 years | | Author(s) | Sue Kelly, Karen Dunnell, John Fox |
| Journal title | Health Trends, vol 30, no 1, 1998 |
| Pages | pp 10-15 |
| Keywords | Demography ; Health [elderly] ; Social trends. |
| Annotation | 1998 marks the fiftieth anniversary of the National Health Service (NHS). This article summarises the major improvements in health since the late 1940s and early 1950s, including an increase in life expectancy of about nine years, and substantial falls in severe infectious diseases. Future challenges include developing new drugs to overcome strains of bacteria which are resistant to antibiotics. The proportion of older people will continue to rise: the challenge is for them to be able to look forward to a healthy old age. Reductions in fatalities from circulatory diseases, cancers, and injury from poisoning offer the greatest scope for increasing life expectancy. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-980827226 A |
| Classmark | S8: CC: TM3 |
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