Sociology 1025A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Visible Minority, Food Security, Homicide
22 Dec 2017
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System of socioeconomic stratification, social institutions, or other patterned relations. Social network ties between organizations & groups. Institutions include health, education, family, criminal justice system. At pop level, there is relationship between degree of inequality & the overall health of a country: more equal societies tend to have better health outcomes (e. g. higher life expectancies) Socioeconomic levels impact health (working in more dangerous jobs with lower paying jobs) Education levels impact health (having knowledge about your health, knowing when to get health, having access to medications) Health of population a hypothetical model of the contributions of equity to the health of a. Equity in society (including gender, ethnic, sexual, ability/disability, religious) Equitable access to political power at local, family, national levels. Equitable access to meaning-making (e. g. world views, religion) An operating model of the social determinants of health. Inequality in a country is a significant predictor of the health of the population of the country.
