SOCA02H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 19: Health Care In Canada, Smoking And Pregnancy, Prenatal Care
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The average age at death of the members of a population. The number of deaths before the age of one for every 1000 live births in a population in one year. Class inequalities and health care on average, people with low income die at a younger age than do people with high income. Gender inequalities in health care: the feminist contribution public health systems have been slow to address and more likely to neglect women"s health issues than men"s health issues. Symbolic interaction, labeling, and the medicalization of deviance. The tendency for medical definitions of deviant behavior to become more prevalent over time. Moreover, scientific medicine continues to subdivide into more specialized areas of practice that rely more and more heavily on drugs and high-tech machinery holistic medicine. Holistic practitioners treat disease by taking into account the relationship between mind and body and between the individual and his or her social and physical environment.
