KINE 255 Lecture 1: course overview lecture notes
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Culture: the set of shared attitudes values goals and practices that characterize an institution or group. Ethnicity: characterization of a group of people whose members identify with each other through a common heritage (countries) Race: classification of humans into distinct groups based primary on heritable characteristics or geographic ancestry ( ex white, black, asian american) Minority: group of people that differ from controlling group of society. Racial health disparities: life expectancy between black and white population. Infant mortality is something else we look at.