Sociology: Your Compass for a New World Robert J. Brym and John Lie Wadsworth Group/Thomson Learning © 2003

Chapter 15 Health, Medicine, and Aging Supplementary Slides

New Cases of Aids and Money Spent Fighting Aids, USA and Africa, 1999 Thousands of new cases/tens of millions of dollars Source: United Nations Report on the Global HIV/AIDS Epidemic: June 2000 (Geneva: 2000). On the World Wide Web at (12 August 2000).

Prevalence of Cigarette Smoking for Persons Eighteen Years Old and Over, by Race and Hispanic Origin, U.S.A., (in Percent) Percent Source: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Healthy People 2000: National Health Promotion and Disease Prevention Objectives (Hyattsville MD: National Center for Health Statistics, 1999) p. 51.

Prevalence of Depression During the Past Year in People Years Old, U.S.A., and 1992 Percent Source: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Healthy People 2000: National Health Promotion and Disease Prevention Objectives (Hyattsville MD: National Center for Health Statistics, 1999) p. 82.

Minorities As Percent of All Americans 65 Years Old and Over, 1999 Percent of all American 65 Years Old and Over Source: Administration on Aging Profile of Older Americans: On the World Wide Web at (22 May 2001).