SOC 1101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Waterborne Diseases, Sick Role, Proceedings Of The National Academy Of Sciences Of The United States Of America
11 Oct 2017
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Sources: desmogblog. com, pnas scientific publication, yale climate connections, six degrees: our future on a hotter planet. Risk of cascading series of effects carbon cycle feedback. Likely to experience intensifications of: water-borne diseases, food borne diseases, vector-borne diseases, rodent-borne disease, air pollution-related health effects, temperature illness and death, extreme weather and death, global health inequities. Increased mental health illnesses, psychological and behavioral risks. Health: the state of complete physical, mental and social well being. Medicine: an institutionalized system for the scientific diagnosis, treatment and prevention of illness. Preventive medicine: medicine that emphasizes a healthy lifestyle in order to prevent poor health before it occurs. Sick role: patterns of behavior defines as appropriate for people who are sick. Medicalization: the process whereby an object or a condition becomes defined by society as a physical or psychological illness. Epidemics: sudden, significant increases in the numbers of people contracting a disease.
