▶ Your Answer :
There might be various resons for making people live longer:
people's awareness of health, advanced medical technology, improved quality of
living, and policies that provide advantages with one's health. I think people's awareness of their health and advanced medical
science play an important role in increasing average life expectancy.
First of all, many people tend to be more interested in their health
these days. Compared with older people who lived in the past, since most of
them suffered from lacking of mere subsistence, they could not have enough time
to take care of their health. On the other hand, most people living in the
present have been concerning about their own health. It is ture that many
people are aware of the importance of
the ways to maintain their health and try to conduct that way such as do
regular exercise, eat balaced diet, and get annual check-ups. My family, for
example, enjoyed dining out every weekend when I was young while nowadays we
enjoy cooking at home and going hiking every Sunday. My father made this plan
after he had high blood pressure and now he is trying to keep this plan for
staying in shape. This tendency helps people to live longer than before.
On top of that, increases in health care technology is helpful for
many people to live longer. Development medicines for various diseases have
been able to cure many people and advancement of medical equipment have made it
possible for doctors to diagnose patients' diseases earlier and easier.
To give you an idea, a lot of patients who had cancer or even minor
ailment could not be treated due to the rudimentary medical system whereas they
can recover from cancer thanks to chemotherapy, radiation therapy and operation
without abdominal incision. In other words, if people get checking up thier
health condition in the hospital year after year, they would can detect thier
disease and care about that.
For all these reasons, I firmly believed that many scientists'
effort toward improve medical care and equipment and people's consciousness
change have made life expectancy longer.
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