SOC243H1 Lecture Notes - Human Capital, Precarious Work, Health Equity
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Social structure, social position and health: marie-pier joly. Risk factors, social conditions and fundamental cause of disease. Understanding the persistence of the relationship between ses and health. Ses gender and health, race and heath. Brief suggestions of some policies, and interventions to address health and inequalities. Concerned with the identification of risk factors for disease. Emerging as a new time the 1960s, risk factors have been identified to be associated with multiple health outcome: becoming more chronic. Risk factors: biomedical, environmental, psychosocial, behavioral. Going beyond risk factors to understand health inequality link and phelan have demonstrated their concern about the considerable emphasis being given on proximal risk factors: need to examine social conditions as cause of diseases, gender, race, socioeconomic status. Social conditions are important to identify risks factors. Understand social conditions not simply as cause of disease, but also as fundamental cause of diseases. Fundamental causes of disease and the role of resources.
