PUBHLTH 2 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Medical Anthropology, Asian Americans, Cardiovascular Disease

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14 Nov 2016
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The healthcare system in the united states has the highest spending per capita, which is extraordinary due to the fact that we aren"t the healthiest country with 2/3 of the population being bmi of over weight. I read in a medical anthropology text that the united states is the most aggressive nation when it comes to fixing the person using biomedicine, where as in france they focus more on the aesthetics. In france the government spending on healthcare was half of what the united states spent, yet there is a higher life expectancy in france. The united states focuses on life quantity, but in france they more or less focus on the quality of life of the patient. It(cid:859)s (cid:448)ery i(cid:374)teresti(cid:374)g that you poi(cid:374)t out ho(cid:449) the u(cid:374)ited tates has the highest spe(cid:374)di(cid:374)g per capita on health care yet (cid:449)e la(cid:272)k health as a populatio(cid:374).

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