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Life Expectancy in 1900
Early 20th in the US the life expectancy was around 47 years, disease and lack of medical care further hindered people's lives and not to mention the lack of resources like clean sources of water and food and the fact that people haven't had the right education for keeping clean and washing hands before eating -
Social work in the 20th century
Social work focuses on immediate issues such as poverty and child welfare which wasn't available which made shorter life spans so there as a need to help people prolong long lives -
2002
when i was born the life expectancy of 2002 was 77 years old and this is due to advancements in health care -
Present life Exptancy(2024)
the life expectancy of the US in 2024 is around 76 and the further advances in health care have prolonged the life expectancy but recently Covid has changed the way how people are now living and that is because of the rise of chronic disease and after-effects of Covid