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3 days ago · The report published on this page, Health trends in England, presents information about the health of people in England and how this has changed over time. Data is presented for England and ...
4 days ago · Participants with higher levels of education and household income had a higher estimated risk of death from most causes whereas the risk of suicide-related mortality was higher among participants who were obese, had lower household income, engaged in less physical activity, were non-moderate alcohol consumers, and those living in more deprived ...
14 hours ago · The population of the UK has undergone demographic transition—that is, the transition from a (typically) pre-industrial population, with high birth and mortality rates and slow population growth, through a stage of falling mortality and faster rates of population growth, to a stage of low birth and mortality rates with, again, lower rates of ...
4 days ago · Studying Death, Dying and Bereavement at the OU. To mark Dying Matters Week and Demystifying Death Week (6-12 May), an OU researcher’s study into end of life care, has informed a Wise in 5 briefing looking at government strategies underpinning palliative and end of life care across the UK and Ireland.
5 days ago · Black Death, pandemic that ravaged Europe between 1347 and 1351, taking a proportionately greater toll of life than any other known epidemic or war up to that time. The Black Death is widely thought to have been the result of plague, caused by infection with the bacterium Yersinia pestis.
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- How many people died during the Black Death?It is not known for certain how many people died during the Black Death. About 25 million people are estimated to have died in Europe from the plag...
- What caused the Black Death?The Black Death is believed to have been the result of plague, an infectious fever caused by the bacterium Yersinia pestis. The disease was likely...
- Where did the Black Death originate?The plague that caused the Black Death originated in China in the early to mid-1300s and spread along trade routes westward to the Mediterranean an...
- What were the symptoms of the Black Death?Yersinia causes three types of plague in humans: bubonic, pneumonic, and septicemic. Although there is DNA evidence that Yersinia was present in vi...
- How did the Black Death affect Europe?The effects of the Black Death were many and varied. Trade suffered for a time, and wars were temporarily abandoned. Many labourers died, which dev...
- What are other names for the Black Death?The Black Death has also been called the Great Mortality, a term derived from medieval chronicles’ use of magna mortalitas. This term, along with m...
2 days ago · Responding to the latest NHS performance data, Siva Anandaciva, Chief Analyst at The King’s Fund, said: ‘As the NHS comes out of a tough winter, it is encouraging to see some green shoots in today’s statistics showing that improvements have been made in several key measures of cancer care.
4 days ago · ‘Death care sector’ crumbling as families wait six weeks for funerals. ‘Snowball effect of delays’ adding to distress of burying loved ones. Steve Bird 7 May 2024 • 7:12pm. A number of factors...
