SOC100H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Talcott Parsons, Antimicrobial Resistance, Ayurveda

• School: UTM
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC100H5
• Professor: Nathan Innocente

Document Summary

Health risks are always unevenly distributed across genders, upper and lower classes, rich and poor countries, and privileged and disadvantaged members of racial and ethnic groups examine the negative: rates of illness and death. When it comes to measuring the health of a population, sociologists typically. The health care system comprises a nation"s clinics, hospitals, and other facilities for ensuring health and threating illness. Hiv/aids is much more common in sub-saharan africa however spending on research and treatment is concentrated in the rich countries of n. america and. Western europe global inequality influences the exposure of people to different health risks. Biomedical advances, such as vaccines against infectious diseases, increase life expectancy however the creation of a public health system is even more important. Racial inequalities in health care the life expectancy of status indians is 7-8 times shorter than that of non- Aboriginal canadians such health disparities are partly due to economic differences among racial groups.