Health Sciences 1002A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Social Capital, Amartya Sen, Unemployment Benefits
3 Feb 2015
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4 greater taxation and reduced government involvement in society are values considered to be neoliberalist. Rudolf virchow, emile durkheim, friedrich engels, thomas mckeown, channing tatum. Genetics age sex (environmental factors & health behaviours and it is those interactions that affect health) The alternative model > instead of looking at the individual, we are looking at the population. Association between disease and income: one of the strongest and most consistent correlations in population-health research, united states (1996, likelihood of reporting poor or fair health is nearly 7. 5 times greater for poorer than richer. Association between disease and income: one of the and correlations in population-health research. United states (1996: likelihood of reporting poor or fair health is nearly 7. 5 times than richer. Illustrates concept of collinearity (several predicted variables are highly correlated with each other) Preston, rodgers, wilkinson, kaplan & kennedy: samuel preston (1975)
