HSCI 340 Lecture 3: week 3 note

• School: Simon Fraser University
• Department: Health Sciences
• Course: HSCI 340
• Professor: Viviane Josewski

Document Summary

Textbook: chapter 1 imaging health problems as social issues. Policies, programs and services designed to keep citizens healthy and to improve the quality of life. Focus: enhancing the health status and well-being of the general population rather than just looking at the health of individual persons. Refers specifically to the buildings and equipment necessary to ensure healthy living conditions for the population. A position in a system of structured inequality based on the unequal distribution of power, wealth, income, and status. People who share a class position typically share similar life chances. The statistical study of patterns of disease in the population. Originally focused on epidemics, or infectious diseases; now covers non-infectious conditions (stroke, cancer) Social epidemiology aligned with sociology that focuses on the social determinants of health. Refer to the social and economic environments in which people live that determine their health.