In general, people are living longer now. Discuss the causes of this phenomenon. Use specific reasons and details to develop your essay. |
In the early 20th century, people lived about sixty years in average. However, in the 21st century, the life expectancy has improved rapidly so that now people live for more than 70 years. This tendency is resulted from several reasons. First, the living condition has been improved. During the early 20th century, people lived in poverty because it was a war period. This poverty made people to eat less and live in dirty places because there was no money to improve their life. This inclination of living poorly led some people sick or even demise. However, nowadays, most people live in apartment where the living conditions are excellent;apartment provides basic needs such as toilet, bedrooms and dining room. Also, people have time to enjoy leisure activitiy such as tennis etc. Thus, this enhancement brought people to live peacefully. Second, implement of health insurance. The purpose of health insurance is to improve citizens health by letting them examine their health for discounted price. With this purpose, people, especially older people can visit hospital twice a month to scrutinize their body to eliminate all the possible viruses which can lead to serious illnesses. Third, the development of medicine. In early 20th century, although there was a medicine, these medicines were not safe; it led to side-effect such as toxic etc. In order to make a perfect medicine, scientists have concentrated all their efforts on the absolute medicine. This invention was successful and no one suffered from side-effect after this advent of complete medicine. As shown three reasons above, these little contribution to life expansion made it to become real. Thus, enhanced living conditions, implement of health insurances and the development of medicine truly extended the people's life.
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