SOC 0477 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Social Epidemiology, Infant Mortality, Germ Theory Of Disease
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Social epidemiology: understanding the causes and distribution of disease. Disease & epidemics w/ cities, transportation, technology. Less acute infectious diseases w/ rise of germ theory & medical advances disease, cancer: instead, more chronic illnesses (e. g. diabetes, heart. Pqli (physical quality of life index): alternative measure to gdp for assessing well-being of a. Race & class & gender are important factors in disease/health. In u. s. , african-americans & lower-class have higher probabilities of illness, disabilities, and death. Women have higher probability of death at young age. Structural racism & sexism play part in mortality (access to resources based on race or gender) Social epidemiology: paying attention to social & cultural factors in studying the origins and distribution of disease w/in population and why health & illness differs among population subgroups. Crude death rate (cdr): overall rate of death in a population in a given period of time. # deaths / year / 100,000 population.
