GEOG 221 Lecture Notes - Shared Decision-Making In Medicine, Natural Disaster, Infant Mortality
16 Feb 2013
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Natural frame fate how hurricanes form, etc. hurricane hits a city (fate can"t do anything about it) Social frame fault social problems arising before/after the hurricane, someone is at fault. Evokes images of wealth, power, population, arts, high lifestyle, financial center, one of the biggest cities in the world. Very divided economically: 21% in poverty, gap between rich and poor is enormous (inequality rivals parts of sub-saharan africa, only a handful of developing countries (namibia, sierra leone) have higher inequality rates. Social/economical differences obvious when natural disasters hit: rich/socially advantaged: could take time off work, leave new york, others: stuck in nyc, still working, leave their families at home, not able to go home or leave. Unique even by us standards of inequality. Dismal health record (infant mortality, adult mortality, homicide, diabetes, heart disease) Natural disaster hit a population unable to cope.
