SOC 506 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Diabetes Care, Secondary Sex Characteristic, Hypertension
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1: social patterning of health: age, sex and gender, and race/ethnicity, chapter 3. Older canadians consume more health care than younger. 2: differentiating between sex and gender, gender. Sex and gender and health: at every age (including in utero), risk for mortality is higher among, on the other hand, women spend more years of their life than. Women get sicker, but men die quicker" males than females men in poor health. Sex and gender and health: prevalence of diabetes in canada. Sex and gender and health: what is race, biological approach: Views racial taxonomies as meaningful classifications of genetic. Assumes that genes determining race also determine the differences between human population groups number and types of health problems an individual will have. Concept of race developed in the context of slavery and imperial colonialism which defined some groups as inferior and provided a rationale for their exploitation variation within a race than there is between races.
