Factors Affecting Mortality

LEARNING OBJECTIVES1. To identify the factors affecting Mortality

2. To prioritise the factors affecting Mortality

Age

Gender

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

Shelter/Residence

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

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

Literacy

Access to Food

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

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