KNES 400 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Bottled Water, Determinant, P38 Mitogen-Activated Protein Kinases
15 Oct 2018
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It could be a one-time observation due to random error or due to errors in methods/procedures used (systematic bias) Individual lifestyle factors (health related knowledge, beliefs, behaviors) that are closer in distance (i. e proximal) to health outcome making it easier to trace link b/w them. Influences that are more remote in position: more remote to outcome, more difficult to outcome. Influences more remote in position (ie distal) to outcome of concern and more difficult to link to the outcome: ex: discrimination, macro-economic system. Right a(cid:449)ay, people (cid:272)o(cid:373)plai(cid:374)ed that it (cid:449)as(cid:374)"t good (cid:894)it s(cid:373)elled, a(cid:374)d tasted bad) impoverished parts had worse water, and children started to test high for lead in blood (causes brain damage). Gov was not treating the water with anti-corrosives, so lead was leaking into the water supply. Poorer areas were being more impacted because they had an older infrastructure, which allowed more lead to leak into the water.
