SOCIOL 3G03 Lecture : SOCIOL 3GO3 Lecture 1 - January 10th 2014.docx
15 Jan 2014
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Patterns of disease and death in canada: causes of disease and death have changed over time, life expectancy, varies across time and place, within and across societies, has increased over time in industrial countries, canada life expectancy is 80. 93 years (2011, gap between male and female started to widened in 1950s, women tend to live longer than men, has declined due to smoking, child care responsibilities, and longer working hours, mortality rate (death), a general decline in death rates due to infectious diseases. Findings suggest that the social, biochemical and physical environment of industrialized societies: have created new kinds of health problems, dying of diseases related to work, industrial process, emergent social relships, number of newly diagnosed cancer cases in canada is increasing, hamilton 5 year survival rates for breast and lung cancer, among the worst in the province, when compared cdn data with pre industrial societies, pre industrial countries have lower incidences of same conditions.
