Health Sciences 1002A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Michael Marmot, Palliative Care, Neoliberalism
17 Sep 2016
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Chapter 1 imagining health problems as social issues. Introduction: the social context of health and illness. Our personal experience of illness means that we tend to view it in an individualistic way as a product of bad luck, poor lifestyle or genetic fate. Health and illness are social experiences ex. Life expectancies varies among developed countries as well as between developed and developing countries (africa 51yrs. , canada 81 yrs. ) Living conditions of the country in which you live can have a significant influence on your chances of enjoying a long and healthy life. Health adjusted life expectancy (hale) represents the number of yrs. people can expect to live without chronic illness or disability (in canada, men-70, women-74) The longer immigrants live in their new country, the more their health mirrors that of the local population referred to as the healthy immigrant effect .
