SY101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Talcott Parsons, Health Care In Canada, Webmd
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Health: a state of complete physical, social, and mental well-being, and not merely the absence of disease or inirmity. Health is a resource for everyday life, not the object of living. It is a posiive concept emphasizing social and personal resources as well as physical capabiliies. Black death killed a third of europe populaion (spread from leas, to rats, to people) The result of hot, humid condiions caused the earth to emit poisonous vapors. Sociologists mainly examine rates of illness and death: healthy populaions experience less illness and longer life than unhealthy populaions, celment lived ill she was 121 years or age from france. Social causes of illness and death: human-environmental factors, health risks arise from how human acivity shapes the environments that people inhabit, some environments foster good health; other impose added risks for poor health, human-environmental factors (cont. , environmental racism.
