PSYC 3125 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Cortisol, Ebola Virus Disease, Domestic Violence
19 Dec 2017
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More than a paycheck is about involuntairy job loss and the difference between how. A major business that employs so many people has a ripple effect for the rest of the community when those employees lose their jobs because those people stop using services. Lots of cases of depression, suicide, domestic abuse. Us gave employees severence (bene ts) for a year after they were laid off. They pay higher taxes in sweden but there is a redistribution of taxes/income. People who have little control over their lives are stressed- increase of heart disease, increase in mental illness. Top 1% of the us holds 38% of the personal wealth(rich are getting richer, and poor are getting poorer) Dealth, diseas, and disability all correlated to income with disease and income being the strongest correlations. Breast cancer, brain cancer, parkinsons are more prevalent in af uent societies: this could be because of pesticides, more screening.
