SOCA02H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Homeopathy, Ontario Health Insurance Plan, Sick Role
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Week 9 health and medicine march 7 (brym ch. Before, infectious diseases used to be leading cause of death, now it is cancer, heart disease, etc. A population"s health is measured by birth and death rate, and causes of death. Infant mortality rate: number of deaths before the age of one for every 1000 live births in a population in one year. Morbidity rates: number of people who suffer from particular illnesses per 100,000 members of a population. Epidemiological transition: shift from a society characterized by infectious and parasitic disease and low life expectancy to society where chronic and degenerative diseases dominate and life expectancy is high: canada has made this transition. Done through examination of opposite: illness and death. Global/local inequities in le and quality of life: global rich countries vs. poor countries, local poor and racialized people, gender.
