Summarys
Chapter 1 Lecture Presentation
Accessing Your Health
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Why Health, Why Now?
• Choosing healthy behaviors now will provide immediate benefits. • Choosing health now will help bring long-term rewards.
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Personal Choices Influence Your Life Expectancy
• Life expectancy has almost doubled over the last 100 years, moving from about 47 years in the early 1900s to over 78 years for a child born in 2010.
© 2012 Pearson Education, Inc.
Personal Choices Influence Your Life Expectancy
• In 1900, over 30% of all deaths occurred among children under the age of 5. Infectious disease was the leading cause of these deaths. • With the development of vaccines and antibiotics, life expectancy increased dramatically and the leading cause of death shifted to chronic diseases.
© 2012 Pearson Education, Inc.
Life Expectancy
• Life expectancy has almost doubled over the last 100 years
• 47 years in the early 1900s • 78 years for a child born in 2010.
• In 1900, over 30% of all deaths occurred among children under the age of 5.
• Infectious disease was the leading cause of these deaths.
© 2012 Pearson Education, Inc.
Personal Choices Influence Your Life Expectancy
• With the development of vaccines and antibiotics, life expectancy increased dramatically and the leading cause of death shifted to chronic diseases.
© 2012 Pearson Education, Inc.
Leading Causes of Death in the United States, 2007, Overall and by Age Group (15 and older)
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The Ten Greatest Public Health Achievements of the 20th Century
© 2012 Pearson Education, Inc.
Choose Health Now to Benefit Others
• Personal lifestyle choices contribute to the burden of disease. • Direct medical cost from obesity reached as high as $147 billion in 2008.
• About half of this cost was paid by Medicaid and Medicare.
© 2012 Pearson Education, Inc.
What Is Health?
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Accessing Your Health
© 2012 Pearson Education, Inc.
Why Health, Why Now?
• Choosing healthy behaviors now will provide immediate benefits. • Choosing health now will help bring long-term rewards.
© 2012 Pearson Education, Inc.
Personal Choices Influence Your Life Expectancy
• Life expectancy has almost doubled over the last 100 years, moving from about 47 years in the early 1900s to over 78 years for a child born in 2010.
© 2012 Pearson Education, Inc.
Personal Choices Influence Your Life Expectancy
• In 1900, over 30% of all deaths occurred among children under the age of 5. Infectious disease was the leading cause of these deaths. • With the development of vaccines and antibiotics, life expectancy increased dramatically and the leading cause of death shifted to chronic diseases.
© 2012 Pearson Education, Inc.
Life Expectancy
• Life expectancy has almost doubled over the last 100 years
• 47 years in the early 1900s • 78 years for a child born in 2010.
• In 1900, over 30% of all deaths occurred among children under the age of 5.
• Infectious disease was the leading cause of these deaths.
© 2012 Pearson Education, Inc.
Personal Choices Influence Your Life Expectancy
• With the development of vaccines and antibiotics, life expectancy increased dramatically and the leading cause of death shifted to chronic diseases.
© 2012 Pearson Education, Inc.
Leading Causes of Death in the United States, 2007, Overall and by Age Group (15 and older)
© 2012 Pearson Education, Inc.
The Ten Greatest Public Health Achievements of the 20th Century
© 2012 Pearson Education, Inc.
Choose Health Now to Benefit Others
• Personal lifestyle choices contribute to the burden of disease. • Direct medical cost from obesity reached as high as $147 billion in 2008.
• About half of this cost was paid by Medicaid and Medicare.
© 2012 Pearson Education, Inc.
What Is Health?
•