Sociology 2179A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Maternal Death, Chronic Condition, Epidemiological Transition
16 Apr 2016
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*researchers use diferent ways to measure the health of the populaion. Rate: the proporion of a speciied populaion that experiences a given circumstance in a given period (ex: # of deaths in canada in 2009 divided by populaion of canada in 2009 x 1000 =7. 1 per 1000. E. g. number of new cases of lung cancer diagnosed in a given year vs number of persons living with lung cancer in a given year. Acute illness: strike suddenly and disappear quickly (chicken pox: incidence beter measures the spread of acute illnesses (and rapidly spreading diseases such as hiv) Infant mortality rate: # of deaths of babies under 1 year of age per 1000 live births. Maternal mortality: death of a woman who was pregnant or within 42 days of terminaion of pregnancy and whose death was caused or aggravated by the pregnancy or its management.
