3/12/99

Public Health

 

Vital Statistics

·        Table 16.3   p435—diseases (50); reportable diseases

·        Reporting of these is important to track the outbreak of how different diseases appear

·        Many different departments help in collecting this information

Population:  270 million

·        Ratio of females to males (105:100)

·        Life expectancy is 77 years

·        Women are 3 more years than men

·        It takes about 87 yrs for US population to double

·        65 years or older is 14% of the population

·        infant mortality rate is 1% (0.7-0.9%)—death of a child before attaining the age of one year

·        Latin/South America—25 yrs to double

·        Europe—112 yrs to double

·        World population is about 6 billion

·        Year 2000 the population should be 6 billion

·        World is expected to double in 37 yrs—2040 will be about 12 billion

·        Most populated countries and in the year 2025 from handout ph50