SOCIOL 3630 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Gynaecology, Built Environment, Social Inequality
13 Mar 2018
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Lifestyle risks: psychosocial aspects of symptoms/care, health reporting behavior, disability and morbidity, what the body is capable of doing in relation to demands put on it, complex phenomenon. Impairment: activity limitation, participation restriction, who: 1 billion people world wide some form of disabilities, 80% live in developing counties, 20% of us population report one or more disabilities, 2/3 considered severe limiting activities, blacks higher than whites. Social inequality, ses: aspects of social context/structure that influence exposure and response to illness/injury and multiple proximate risk factors. Social environment: physical environment, differential susceptibility, differential experiences in the health care setting reverse causality. Second leading cause of early death (1-4 years: 1/4 of hospital admissions less than 18 years old, potential for disease - related to environmental triggers (gene "expression") Increasing survival rates due to early detection and improved treatments: trends in diabetes, the intermediate step or risk factor.
