Health Sciences 1002A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Emergency Management, World Health Organization, Life Satisfaction
10 May 2016
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Infant mortality rate is the number of deaths of infants under one-year-old/1,000 live births. Infant mortality tells us a lot about the country"s living conditions. 4 humours: blood, phlegm, black bile, and yellow bile. Empirical verification (observation) became basis of scientific method. Informed a lot of public health during the time of industrialization. Tends to ignore social production of health/illness. 233 5) the assumptions informing biomedicine as a field of practice. Medical dominance means medical professions control its own work, the work of other health care workers, and resource allocations of the health care. Range and hierarchy of health care works. Power, autonomy, and control gained over health care by medicine. The ability of medicine to organize as a profession. Doctors are the most trustworthy in the healthcare. The authority to direct or evaluate work of others. Power of medical profession is an expression of how power is distributed in society.
