PSY321H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Asparagine, Dysphoria, Hispanic
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Physical health: culture can influence our physical health. Human biological variability: health varies across cultures, result of innate biological difference: factors that inborn, evolutionary processes, acquired biological differences: ways culture directly and indirectly affects o(cid:374)e"s biology. If you have darker skin you have less vitamin d available, direct selection affect on physical health that affects our health. Suggest there are culture variable that is driving varibalility arcoss the states: califorinia area more active states and southern is more cooking that is high calroies and being well fed. Beyond acess to healthcre: more hostile have more health problems psychosocial. In higher income brackets if you make more money thant the average person and exert control in daily life like felexible scedules, you tend to be healthier. Lower ses genrally better off that is similar with higher ses if they also have higher flexibility and control. Impairment in functioning, has to make the determination as if their daily function is impaired.
