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Infant and child mortality is down _and_ we're living longer.
by NegativeK 12y ago
Infant and child mortality is down _and_ we're living longer.
- ekianjo 12y ago> _and_ we're living longer. This is mainly due to the improvement of hospital facilities and the end of life treatments. we are not living longer better - the older you get the more cripple you are likely to survive. What really matters in life expectancy is the ability to live longer in good health.
- meric 12y agoThe improvement of hospital facilities owe a great deal to humanity's ability to destroy germs at will when it is important to do so, e.g. during/after surgery. http://jfh.sagepub.com/content/14/3/195.abstract http://jfh.sagepub.com/content/14/3/195.abstract Hospitals were death traps 200 years ago.