SOCIOL 44 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Condom, Sub-Saharan Africa, Demographic Transition
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Total deaths in a year/ average total population(midyear) x 1000. This allows us to look at the deaths of people in certain age ranges. Behaviors that one engages in that may causes the biological death: distal cause. Industrialization-if the country is more developed the country will invest more in education which will invest more in health. Occupation-truckers have a higher death rates shermen are high as well: marital status-very protective in terms of death rate. Nutrition transition-people have transitioned to more animal fat, sugar, processed foods. Bath houses began to close as std"s came about: women put in their place more so they wouldn"t temp men. Prostitution was seen as really bad and rotten: having std"s was seen as the rottenness of ones soul. 1981 doctors started noticing people were developing a very serious disease (aids) No one mentioned this disease for 5 years even though it was becoming an epidemic because it had a huge stigma surrounding it.
