SOC 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Curandero, Medicalization, Tungsten
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How would you analyze health using the functionalist, conflict, interactionist and labeling. Social epidemiology: the study of the distribution of disease, impairment, and general health status across a population. Health: a state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being, and not merely the absence of disease and infirmity. Morbidity rate: when disease incidence figures are presented as rates, or the number of reports per 100,000 people. Mortality rate: the incidence of death in a given population. Minorities experience higher morbidly and mortality rates than whites. Crowded living conditions, poor diet, and stress all contribute to illness. Diseases are (cid:272)hro(cid:374)i(cid:272) a(cid:374)d a(cid:272)(cid:272)u(cid:373)ulati(cid:448)e (cid:271)e(cid:272)ause (cid:373)edi(cid:272)al (cid:272)are is(cid:374)"t pre(cid:448)e(cid:374)tati(cid:448)e (cid:271)ut treatment. More likely to use health services than younger people. Females have greater longevity than males, potentially because they are less likely to smoke and consume less alcohol. Stars not visible at night due to city lights. Population brings with it major environmental problems, such as:
