HLST 1010 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Sick Role, Medicalization, Materialism
8 Dec 2015
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Income inequality: epidemiology considers the following is worse for health outcomes, smoking, pollution, dietary habits d, a, b, and c, all of the above. Illness and disease: what is the most commonly used measure of inequality, race and class, functionalism, gender d. Income difference: is there a relationship between income distribution and health, yes, no. Cities with a small gap between rich and poor have almost the same mortality rate. Japan demonstrates that smoking is actually super healthy. The following produces health in a population: basic needs (food, water, shelter, and security, distribution by wealth, resources, income, education, political power, health care services, egalitarianism, all of the above status of women. Who was politics was just medicine practiced on a larger scale: gandhi, malcolm x, rudolph virchow. There is a lot of interest among epidemiologists and the general populations in the broader factors that produce health in society. The sick role has a duel impact biological and social.
