Waqar

"Using examples from housing, pollution, and the NHS, explain how Britain improved the life span of the population over the 20th century."


In the twentieth century there were many medical discoveries. In the twentieth century the life expectancy was going up because they had better-conditioned houses and the National Health Service was invented.

The life expectancy in the twentieth century was 50 years for male and 45 for female, today the life is 75 for male and 80 for female. This was because the state of living in the twentieth century grew rapidly because of the government and the live style people lived.

The state of the houses changed because during the world war two, the government thought the heroes should deserve to get proper good houses. This was because they went to war and the people thought it was a good idea to give them good houses, this also made people go to the hospital less time because they had a longer life span and the environment that they were living was more cleaner.

The air that people breathed in made the life expectancy to expand because the government closed down more factories so they could not pollute the air. This made life expectancy to expand because people had cleaner air to breathe in.

Also the NHS (National Health Service) made the life expectancy to expand because they had cleaner hospitals, free transportation to the hospitals, compulsory vaccination and the doctors would treat anyone even if they have no money. This is a good thing because poor people can get a fare health service so their life span can go higher.

Overall I think that the most important things that the government have done to expand the life span is that they found out cures for diseases, and they found out to prevent the disease. All that could not have been done without DNA and X-ray.