SOC364H1 Lecture Notes - Social Inequality, Improved Sanitation, Whitehall Study
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Food and nutrition primary determinant of good health. However, research suggests that nourishment was not the only factor contributing to good health . Also a product of cultural and social changes . Progressive initiatives to control venereal diseases, regulate prostitution a nd other lifestyle vices, extended sexual education to the population, used technology to enhance a safe and healthy living. Advanced critical thinking, sense of control, and coping strategies associated wi th risks and health problems. Despite these advancements, a health gradient emerges and persists. Study examined determinants of health among british male civil servants aged 20-6. The first of its kind to find a strong inverse association between class of work a nd mortality. Men in the lowest grade (messengers, doorkeepers, etc. ) had a mortality r ate three times higher than that of men in the highest grade (administrato rs). Emphasis on social class and inequality in income and working conditions.
