HLTA02H3 Lecture Notes - Social Fact, Degenerative Disease, Sub-Saharan Africa
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# of years a given cohort (ie. country/national state) is expected to live. Lot of variation in north america among highest 80-83 yrs: sub-saharan africa people born in 2009 expected to live. 38 yrs: so l. e. varies by time and geographic location / cohort, according to world bank: average l. e. of all countries on earth = 70 yrs. Reasons explained by: epidemiological transition, theory of demographic transition: as economy changes from low to high per capta income there is a transition from high mortality and high fertility to low mortality and low fertility, explains l. e. now. 3 stages in pattern of disease which suggest: that first we have age of pestilence and famine and communication have low. 4 paradigms for studying health from a sociological perspective: structural functionalism, conflict theory, symbolic interactions/interpretive theory, feminist/ ant-racial/ intersectionality theory. Idea is that researchers should be objective when they are observing, collecting, measuring data etc: from that we can say x cause y.
