SOC312H1 Lecture Notes - Infant Mortality, Population Health, Life Table
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Aggregate-level and individual-level observations of mortality and health disparities: aggregate means of various individual measures. Population health perspective: fig 7. 1 framework, measures that we use: Life expectancy (for all live births eo), infant mortality rates: the arrows there are feedbacks (correlation of all factors) People are more likely to engage in health enhancing activities. Important for insurances calculate risk for you developing a disease or dying. Health transition theory improvements in health and life expectancy (p 276) to several major factors (improvements in environment, work, societal factors, stratification and equality, institutional household factors) (cid:1)(cid:1)lifespan longest potential years lived (maximum observed life expectancy) Figure 7. 10 in 1921, highest cause of death was infectious and parasitic diseases, then diseases of the circulatory system. Figure 7. 13a: canada and austria, life expectancy at birth. Canada fairly big jump in improvement. Figure 7. 15: suicide varies by age in both us and canada. Men are more likely to commit suicide (in all age groups)
