MSPH Seminar 01-Apr-09: What does long-term mortality decline tell us about the causes of population health?

12.30pm – 1.30pm, Wed 1st April 2009
Seminar Room 515, Level 5, 207 Bouverie Street, Carlton

Professor Alistair Woodward, Head, School of Population Health, University of Auckland

If we knew what had caused it, we might be able to say this was one of the greatest human achievements of the 20th century. Global life expectancy at birth in the early 1900s was about 30 years; currently the figure stands at about 66 years. Overall, the pace of improvement shows no sign of slowing, and in the last 50 years mortality in Australia has halved. There are many contending explanations, and I suggest it is worth examining these closely. What we learn may shed light on the bigger question of what makes populations healthy.

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