February 2019
Intermediate to advanced
202 pages
5h 16m
English
Healthcare and the Life Sciences
The Rapidly Growing Burden of Healthcare
Over the course of the past 50 years, life expectancy at birth has been growing progressively across the world, from an average of 46.5 years in 1955 to 65.2 years in 2002 [1]. While there are significant disparities between developed and developing economies, the risk of death between ages 15 years and 60 years has dropped from 35.4 percent in 1955 to 20.7 ...