Sociology 2140 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Iatrogenesis, Ivan Illich, High Tech
23 Jan 2017
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Chapter 10 health, illness and health care. Health a state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being. World health organization (who: headed by a brescia grad, health is the state of complete physical, mental, social wellbeing and spiritual, (cid:1005)(cid:1004)% of the gross do(cid:373)esti(cid:272) produ(cid:272)t, (cid:271)ut does(cid:374)"t al(cid:449)a(cid:455)s (cid:373)ea(cid:374) (cid:271)etter life e(cid:454)pe(cid:272)ta(cid:374)(cid:272)(cid:455) Measures of health: life expectancy average age of death women 84, men 79, us spends per person in health care, canada spends per person in health care. Infant mortality rate - the number of deaths of infants under one year of age per 1000 live births in a given year: has decreased greatly during the past century. Acute diseases are illnesses that strike suddenly and cause dramatic incapacitation and sometimes death: we have enhanced our vaccination system and nutrition in canada. Improvements have eliminated many acute diseases: ex: malaria, polio, measles.
