SOC239H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Health Promotion, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, Anti-Abortion Movements
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Some important factors affecting or connected with health: international, canadian and historical. In 2012, 6. 6 million children in the world under 5 years of age died (who: easily preventable or treatable diseases, poverty, malnutrition, lack of clean water and adequate sanitation are primary causes. Poverty and inequality: econ growth has not guaranteed a better healthy nation. Income inequality has a direct correlation with illness patterns. Low rates of im (infant mortality) are seen in more equal countries such as sweden, norway and. Finland: they all are democratic socialist countries: higher rates are in us, mexico, global inequality has grown seriously over the past 50 years. Social sources of disease and death: disease refers to a biological problem. Improved crops and hence nutrition: changes in war fare - moving soldiers away from cities and diseases, women beginning to have children less often. Increasing changes of survival for women, keeping children with them and breastfeeding them.
