SOC101Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Health Care In Canada, Infant Mortality, Big Difference
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In the past dominant cause of death was death from infectious diseases. Pre-modern societies high death rates with leading cause of death - infection 80% kung. Farming societies have greater exposure to infection than hunting and gathering societies, contact with domestic animals and other humans shift to the more efficient farming method of producing food meant larger communities. Lots more people who could communicate the disease to each other. It is in farming communities and those after that you can have epidemics: kung and scattered groups do not give infection ability to transfer as easily in farming societies. [note: below, m+p refers to the reading by mccracken and phillips in your reprotext. Statistics for canada come from wayne w. mcvey jr. and warren e. kalbach, canadian population. ] Roughly 80% of deaths among the !kung (howell) Major causes now cancer and heart disease, about 2/3 of all deaths. For the ache, ~25% infectious disease, ~50% human violence due to extreme circumstances.
