SOC100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Infant Mortality, Medical Sociology, Mortality Rate
13 May 2016
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Health a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease of infirmity. Medical sociology/ sociology of health focus on health care professionals, health policies, and health care delivery systems. Health and wealth and power social causes of illness and death. Related sociological/ public health specializations aging, dying, population studies, epidemiology, environmental sociology, health care administration. Infant mortality rate number of deaths before the age of one for every 1000 live births in a population in a year. Life expectancy average age at death of members of a population. Morbidity rate: number of people who suffer from particular disease / illness per 100000 members in a population. Larger the aboriginal population, larger the infant mortality rate higher in nt, nu etc. Infant mortality rate globally unequal countries higher. As infant mortality goes down, life expectancy goes up. Overweight trends sweden, japan, us, canada.
