People's Century - Season 1 Episode 16 1954: Living Longer
Medical advances allow people to live longer and healthier lives. Penicillin is developed in time to save lives during the Second World War. After the war national public health institutions are established, and national and international efforts are directed towards treatments against infectious diseases including typhus, tuberculosis and polio. Smallpox, the scourge of developing countries, is also eradicated. As deaths from infectious diseases are reduced, population booms in those developing countries with high birth rates – China and India take measures to promote family planning. Cholera becomes a risk in countries with insufficient sanitation to prevent water-borne diseases. AIDS spreads in Africa and elsewhere, and unlike other diseases appears untreatable. By the 1990s health in the developing world has much improved, and reduced infant mortality rates have lowered birth rates across the world. The introductory scene shows the United States in the 1950s when polio was prevailant.
Year: 1995
Genre: Documentary
Country: United Kingdom, United States of America
Studio: BBC One
Director: Zvi Dor-Ner, David Espar, Peter Pagnamenta
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First Air Date: Sep 13, 1995
Last Air date: Oct 08, 1995
Season: 1 Season
Episode: 26 Episode
Runtime: 26 minutes
IMDb: 8.00/10 by 1.00 users
Popularity: 2.097
Language: English
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Season
Season 1
Episode
1900: Age of Hope
1914: Killing Fields
1917: Red Flag
1919: Lost Peace
1926: On the Line
1927: Great Escape
1929: Breadline
1930: Sporting Fever
1933: Master Race
1939: Total War
1945: Fallout
1945: Brave New World
1947: Freedom Now
1948: Boomtime
1951: Asia Rising
1954: Living Longer
1957: Skin Deep
1959: Endangered Planet
1963: Picture Power
1949: Great Leap
1968: New Release
1970: Half the People
1973: War of the Flea
1979: God Fights Back
1989: People Power
1997: Fast Forward
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