Sociology 2180A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Health Equity, Infant Mortality, Asian Americans
12 Apr 2018
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More countries have less than ,000 of income while health ranges from 47 to 70. Linear relationships b/w income per-person in different countries and average level of health. Some countries are below the line (poorer health than we would expect) and above the line (better health than we would expect) Many sub-saharan countries have poorer health due to the hiv/aids epidemic. Men live around 76. 3 years and women 81. 1 years (couple years less than in canada) U. s. has more health disparities than canada. Hispanics lives the longest, non-hispanic whites, and non-hispanic blacks. Women w/ low levels of education have higher levels of disability than those w/ higher levels of education. Blacks also have higher levels of disability than whites. Figure 1 disability prevalence rates for men, by race/ethnicity and age. The % of people that are disabled are native americans, blacks, asian americans, Males and females active life expectancy by race/ethnicity.
