UNIT 7 Sociological Perspectives- P3 Homework Task

Health and Illness issue- AGE

Life Expectancy

Women tend to live longer than men. Although some women experience high
mortality rates. Black African women which are asylum seekers usually have the
mortality rate 7 times higher than white women. Men have worse outcomes. In life
expectancy for men theyre worse than socio-economic circumstances. Women
whore in social class 1 are expected to live 5 years longer than men whore in the
same social class.

Morbidity Rates

Mortality Rates

The morbidity rate for children whore under the age of 10 has the biggest percentage of death rate and this has been
the biggest rate since 1963. The morbidity rate has fallen by 81% for males and for females it has decreased by 67%

http://www.ons.gov.uk/ons/rel/vsob1/death-reg-sum-

tables/2013/sty-mortality-rates-by-age.html
http://www.medicine.ox.ac.uk/bandolier/booth/Risk/dyingage.html

Incidences of disease

Osteoporosis is estimated to affect 200 million women worldwide approximately one-tenth of women aged 60, one-fifth of women
aged 70, two-fifths of women aged 80 and two-thirds of women
aged 90

Suicide Rates

Men are more likely to commit suicide than women. The highest suicide rate in 2013
was 19.1 in people ages 45- 64 years old. The second highest rate was 18.6 in
people aged 85 and over. People in the adolescents and young adults (15-24) have a
suicide rate of 10.9
https://www.afsp.org/understanding-suicide/facts-and-figures

Any other key patterns and trends

in health and illness
What difficulties are there in
measuring the health of this social
group?