HLTHAGE 1AA3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Retributive Justice, Socioeconomic Status, Rheumatism
21 Mar 2018
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Social structure and health by segall and chappell. Social structure lends insight into the forces that affect our lives = experiences and positions within the social structure affect our attitudes and behaviours. Example of tony and fisal = expectations that tony, given his poorer status, will have more health problems and die earlier of natural causes than fisal who has more economically substantial background. Says the social structure has power of life and death over us. Since social structures can be modified , this relationship indicates that illness is potentially preventable = proof in how regional disparities in death rate in. Canada have changed = variables accounting for this social structural: major economic growth and investment in equalizing educational opportunities. Table 7-1 perceptions of health by income and education. Ses = socioeconomic status = the higher the education and income achieved the better the perception of one"s health.
