HTW 309 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Preterm Birth, Umbilical Cord, Leg Before Wicket

• School: Syracuse University
• Department: Health and Wellness
• Course: HTW 309
• Professor: M.Thompson

Document Summary

Differences in: health behavior, socioeconomic factors, health system measures, cultural competence, overall quality, appropriateness, timeliness, insurance status, historical oppression, chronic stress, social support/social connectivity, power/control over life circumstances, resource inequity. Some may be related to health behavior. Complications of the umbilical cord, placenta, membranes. Socioeconomic status -- but also strong interaction with other factors associated with race. Hypotheses to explain back/ white differences in cardiac disease outcomes. Increased morbidity and mortality may be related to: May have less adherenece to treatment approaches. Health behavior is influenced by a multitude of factors; the lack of knowledge being only one of many. However knowledge/ information is a pre-condition to practicing healthy behavior. Unlike many social and environmental conditions, health behavior may be modified to reduce risk of disease. Health behaviors rarely occur in isolation, but cluster in patterns that influence the risk for disease.