SOC-S 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Breast Cancer, Lung Cancer, Cardiovascular Disease
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Argue that social is more important than biological: sometimes society trumps biology, sometimes biology trumps society. Heart attacks are underdiagnosed for both african americans and women. Many women that are having a heart attack are misdiagnosed by: psychiatric issues, gastrointestinal. Your probability of getting an accurate diagnosis is shaped by your gender and race. Heart disease outruns cancer in leading cause of death in all genders and races. Rank of mortality rate: heart disease is leading cause by far, stroke, lung cancer (mostly people who have never smoked, copd, breast cancer (way last) **then why are we not campaigning for heart disease . Health services research: how people get access to healthcare services, how healthcare systems are structured, how medicine is practiced, and what happens to patients as a result of treatment. Certainty: if uncertain, physicians are less likely to provide a prescription, test for more areas, etc.
