Health Sciences 1002A/B Study Guide - Fall 2018, Comprehensive Midterm Notes - Canada, Synchronous Optical Networking, Nunavut
12 Oct 2018
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MIDTERM EXAM
STUDY GUIDE
Fall 2018
Social Determinants of Health
Two factors for health in our society:
1. genetic – predisposition based on genetic risk factors to disease and responses to
treatment
2. behaviors as a matter of choice
• The conditions in which people live and work directly affect the quality of their
health
• Health and healthcare in Canada are not equally distributed
Top 10 causes of death in Canada in 1881
1. Smallpox
2. Typhus
3. Cholera
4. Diphtheria
5. Dysentery
6. Measles
7. Tuberculosis
8. Typhoid
9. Scarlet Fever
10. Meningitis
• Medical advances play a great role in determining mortality rates. More
advances= greater mortality rates
• with improved healthcare and introduction of vaccines top 10 causes of disease
shifted from infectious diseases to chronicle
Top 10 causes of death in Canada in 2015
1. Cancer
2. Heart disease
3. Stroke
4. Chronic lower respiratory diseases
5. Accidents
6. Diabetes
7. Alzheimer’s
8. Influenza and pneumonia
9. Suicide
10. Kidney disease
• Top 10 causes of death went from infectious diseases to chronicle diseases
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• causes us to question weather laziness has become a factor of why people are
falling ill
• mortality rates determined by social factors
Social Determinants of Health
• the social, economic, and environmental conditions key to individual,
community and population health
General Socio-economic, cultural and environmental conditions:
• Living Condition
◦ housing
◦ healthcare services
◦ water and sanitation
◦ unemployment
• Working Conditions:
◦ work environment
◦ education
◦ agriculture and food production
Friedrich Engels mid 1800’s: The conditions of the working class in England
◦ studied the effect of urbanization on workers, their families, communities
and entire cities
◦ He argued that the industrial workers had lower incomes than their pre-
industrial peers and they lived in more unhealthy and unpleasant
environments.
• argues that the Industrial Revolution made workers worse off. He shows, for
example, that in large industrial cities such as Manchester and Liverpool,
mortality from disease (such as smallpox, measles, scarlet
fever andwhooping cough) was four times that in the surrounding
countryside, and mortality from convulsions was ten times as high.
Rudolf Virchow, Modern Pathology
o disease is not something personal and special, but only a
manifestation of life under modified conditions
• Health: soundness of body and mind
• wellbeing: a high level of satisfaction and contentment with one’s life and
one’s living conditions of which health would like be an important
component
21 years differences in the life expectancy within Hamilton region Ontario
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Document Summary
Top 10 causes of death in canada in 1881: smallpox, typhus, cholera, diphtheria, dysentery, measles, tuberculosis, typhoid, scarlet fever, medical advances play a great role in determining mortality rates. Meningitis advances= greater mortality rates: with improved healthcare and introduction of vaccines top 10 causes of disease shifted from infectious diseases to chronicle. Social determinants of health: the social, economic, and environmental conditions key to individual, community and population health. General socio-economic, cultural and environmental conditions: living condition, housing, healthcare services, water and sanitation, unemployment, working conditions, work environment, education, agriculture and food production. Sherman-wentworth neighborhood: 1 in 7 mom"s teens, average household: ,000, 1 in 4 adults don"t have high school. Life-course perspective: social determinants impact us at every stage in life, cumulative effect of social determinants on risks for disease, longer exposure = increases impact, earlier = increases impact.
