Do you think we're any healthier today than we were in the 60s and 70s?

I think about thing I miss, like straw dispensers. Now a days straws are locked up in plastic that you have to peel off, adding to the mess we’ve gotten ourselves in to with pollution. Have measures like those really made us any safer? In spite of the hand sanitizing craze, aren’t our kids and grandkids still getting sick with the exact same stuff that made us sick, like the flu and colds?
My DIL just got over a bout with some 24 hour bug thing.