SOCI 102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: World Health Organization, Social Inequality, Food Security

• School: UBC
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOCI 102
• Professor: Catherine Corrigall- Brown

Document Summary

Health is state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease, or in rmity . Cultural patterns & health: cultural norms in uence perceptions of health and healthy living. What used to be good but now deemed bad for us. Our views of what deemed good for us and now viewed di erently. Social policy and health: major social policy advances promoting health, sanitation (clean water, refrigeration. Tuesday, november 7, 2017: nutrition, pasteurization, inoculation against infectious disease, health care system (eg. clinics, hospital) We are much healthier overtime due to policies and new systems. Health care spending as % of gdp, per country. Usa spends the most money on health care (spent by people and government) Not about how much money you"re spending but how you"re using the spending. Social determinants of health: income and its distribution, education and access to information, gender.