SOCI 230 Lecture Notes - Lecture 20: Allostatic Load, World Health Organization, Urinary Tract Infection
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Health affected by not just lifestyle, biology, or genetic inputs. Sociological: health to be far more than biology. Social determinants: conditions in which people are born, grow, live, work and age affect health, too. Individual and population health outcomes affect by social and economic factors. Conditions are social and economic in origin and not in biological. Who recognizes discrimination as important factor affecting physical health. Effect bodied allostatic load, weakens immune system (more susceptible to diseases and infections) Fundamental vs. proximate causes of diseases & inequality. Racism ~ fundamental cause of disease because affects access to and distribution of resources, power, social networks. Health to be influenced by more than lifestyle, biology, genetic inputs. Conditions in which people are born, grow, live, work and age affect health. Can be influenced by social and economic factors: distribution of money, power and resources.
