SOC357H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Sandwich Generation, Old Age, Manual Labour
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Age = predictor of what health related benefits and deficits you have. Those who start out at a disadvantage in the family, education trajectory have more health problems. Mental health is very strongly affected by your social conditions. Rates of illness, death rates, long term chronic conditions go up with age: relatively new up until the modern era. Post industrial and infants death rates were much higher: infant mortality rates were high in all pre-modern societies. #1 reason for this: hygiene: clean street, availability of clean water biggest things that lead to spread of illness and viruses, medical care, antibiotics. There are plenty of places where clean water cannot be taken for granted. Once people are past the firs year. Today: mortality rate looks more like a j. In our world today, physical health problems mostly emerge in old age. When they emerge, product of family background, work cycle you have had.
