SOCI 2050 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Ecological Fallacy, Cholera

• School: Carleton University
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOCI 2050
• Professor: Steven Prus

Document Summary

Health: objective component (disease and disability) and subjective component (illness) Spectrum of being either free of illness or have a disease. Population health measures: direct, health utility index (50 questions with numbers b/w 0 (death)- 1. 0 (perfect health) Epidemiology: how social variable effect distribution of disease. John snow and 1831 london cholera outbreak: major cholera outbreak that he further investigated - found that the source was from dirty water at specific pump, first one to record and map epidemics. Rate = number of cases in target population / total # of ppl in population x 10n.