PAM 2030 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Birth Weight, Parasitic Disease, Penicillin

• School: Cornell University
• Department: Policy, Analysis and Management
• Course: PAM 2030
• Professor: Lichter

Document Summary

Social foundation of population health and morality data and measurement of trends- us and global epidemiological transition. Goal: think about the social foundations of heath rather than biomedical models that emphasize treatment. Approximately 80% of hispanic children are born to poor parents. Married people live longer because of biological changes. If we reduce the disparities in certain environments, will that lead to improved health overall? physical environment (place of residence, crowding conditions, built environment)[ Kids exposed to poisons in paint or noise pollutions. Stress buffering hypothesis: certain kind of conditions leads to negative health outcomes. If you have positive influences, that buffers the negative consequences and decreases the negatives impacts. health services (access to healthcare, insurance. In the us, every state has their health department. Collect death certificates and doctors fill them out. Cdc collects this data and can tract over time what causes most deaths in the us. Trends in mortality in the us almost always standardized by age.