SOC100H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Reflexology, Social Isolation, Socioeconomic Status
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Life expectancy has grown: various factors that can increase life expectancy and longevity over time, sanitation hygiene, sewage pasteurization are key to longevity. Individual: diet and lifestyle: smoking and drinking is not good for you, can cause death, poor diet, lack of exercise, social isolation being unmarried, widowed can lead to depression. One of the daughters had epilepsy, which they believed was a spiritual cause rather than organic cause. When doctors tried to treat it with medicine, the hmong people did not understand why and how to administer the drugs. The hmong people stopped giving medicine, which caused her situation to get worse and she was taken away from her family for not treating her well: jehovah"s witnesses and blood doctrine. They believed no blood transfusion, which causes people to die: environmental factors. Income distribution: poverty, community, access to health care, country of origin, environment: poverty. Environmental racism- specific kind of dangers are heaped upon disadvantaged people.
