SOC100H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Blood Transfusion, Social Isolation, Socioeconomic Status
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Soc100 lecture 17 health and medicine. Individual: diet and lifestyle: excessive substance use, poor diet, lack of exercise, social isolation. Life long partner dies, so the person who lives alone has a health decline. Individual: culture: example of hmong in u. s. Spiritual vs. organic causes of epilepsy, for example. Parents of a little girl with epilepsy believed it was spiritual and refused to put her on the heavy drugs, so she got worse. Her bad health was a result of her parent"s cultural beliefs: jehovah"s witnesses and blood doctrine. Causes people"s deaths because of their belief. Environmental factors: income distribution, poverty, community, access to health care, country of origin. Environment: poverty: environmental racism, dangers heaped upon the disadvantaged. They usually live in places around factories and pollution, because it"s simply cheaper: exposure to toxins, as a result. Environment: class inequality: high stress and inability cope.
