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The editors at Best Nursing Masters Degrees decided to research the topic of: Then and Now: Medicine From 1950 To Today In the past 60 years, almost everything about medicine and the medical industry has changed, from health to science. Vital Signs Average lifespan

- Then: 68.2 years

- Now: 78.6 years Being born Total births

- Then: 3,632,000

- Now: 4,131,019 Birth rate per 1,000 population

- Then: 24.1

- Now: 13.8 Infant mortality rate per 1,000 live births

- Then: 29.2

- Now: 6.9 Dying Deaths per 100,000 population

- Cause - Then - Now

- Tuberculosis - 22.5 - 0.2

- Cancer - 139.8 - 188.7

- Cardiovascular diseases - 510.8 - 288.8

- Influenza and pneumonia - 31.3 - 21.3

- Auto accidents - 23.1 - 15.3 Youth suicides (age 15-19) per 100,000 population

- Then: 2.7

- Now: 7.3 Heart disease deaths per 100,000 population

- Then: 307.4

- Now: 193.6 Diabetes cases (percentage of population)

- Then: 300,000 (0.01%)

- Now: 2,500,000 (8.3%) Vaccine-preventable diseases Polio

- Then: 57,879

- Now: 0 Tetanus

- Then: 486

- Now: 9 Pertussis

- Then: 120,718

- Now: 15,216 Healthcare Costs Per-capita health expenditures

- Then: $134*

- Now: $8,953

- * Not adjusted for inflation Total health expenditures as portion of GDP

- Then: 4.6%

- Now: 17% Insurance and government portion of payments

- Then: 44%

- Now: 86% Employment Total physicians

- Then: 219,900

- Now: 838,473 Hospital-based physicians

- Then: 14%

- Now: 42% Female doctors

- Then: 6%

- Now: 30%

- Then Now Hospitalizations Inpatient days per 1,000 population

- Then: 899

- Now: 633 Average length of stay

- Then: 8.25 days

- Now: 5.43 days The Cutting Edge Medical technology, discoveries and innovations. Then

- Cardiac pacemaker

- Polio vaccine

- DNA structure

- Bypass machine

- Organ transplant

- Pencil and paper record system Now

- Full face transplant

- 3D organ printers

- Baby cured of HIV

- Liver grown from stem cells

- Robotic surgery

- Electronic health records SOURCES

- Google Public Data

- http://www.infoplease.com

- http://www.suicide.org

- http://www.nvic.org

- http://www.cdc.gov

- http://www.cms.gov

- http://www.forbes.com

- http://www.nejm.org



