HLTB41H3 Lecture 2: HLTB41- Lecture 2
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Figure 1. 1 the social skeleton health, illness, and structure-agency: society and issues within society are linked and interact with one another, analogy: thinks of it how bones keep all the systems together. Social determinants of health: education, housing, income, policy, etc. Social determinants of health is made up of four parts. Ameil curcan -> end of twenty century: found that suicide rates differ among different age groups and different genders. Karl marx: made a strong link between disease and environment, mainly in europe, about labour workers, what they noticed is that there was striking difference in death rates between working class and rich men. Who: says about how the focus of medicine should be to prevent. Thomas mckwoen: how the medical profession and the government over estimated the influence of how medical discoveries long people lived, pointed us in the direction of social conditions. The influence of events throughout history also played a particular role on health.
