MEDICINE

WHAT IS MEDICINE?

• Medicine is the practice of diagnosis and treatment.
• Medicine also practices prevention of diseases and the promotion of health.

NORTH AMERICA

• Modern medicine extends lives with antibiotics.
• Extensions consist of modern drugs altered to, diabetes, cancer and more.
• This decreases death rates and increases population.

SOUTH AMERICA

• Medicne has decreased infant mortality.
• Because babies have a higher chance of surviving, population increases.

EUROPE

• Medicine created vaccinations against diseases.
• Some diseases are smallpox and polio.
• It increased life expectancy because diseases didn't kill people.

AFRICA

• Vaccinations has enormous impact on extending lives of people here.
• Many people who have Ebola (an incurable disease) can live longer.
• Other diseases could be AIDS.
• It increases life expectancy slightly.

ASIA

• Medicine was available to Asia since the Shang Dynasty. (14th-11th century)
• A popular medicine was ginseng.
• Ginseng helped boost energy and was great for the body.
• It brought up average life expectancy.

AUSTRALIA

• Modern health care keeps people healthy.
• It increases life expectancy.