SOC100H5 Chapter Notes - Chapter 11: Health Care In Canada, Canadian Medical Association, Asubpeeschoseewagong First Nation
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The black death shows the three main themes of the sociology of health and medicine: health risks are unevenly distributed, health problems change over time. Because of increased life expectancy, degenerative conditions have developed differently than a century ago. Life expectancy: the average age at death of the members of a population: superstitions and ignorance surrounded the treatment of the ill. Health: according to the who, a state of complete physical, social and mental well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity. E. g. hazardous waste sites and polluting industries are located near first nations communities or areas populated by the poor, the politically marginalized, or certain visible minority groups. Introduction of sour gas wells and logging operations around the reserves of the lubicon first. Nations caused population to suffer from tuberculosis, respiratory difficulties, and cancer at rates far above the national average.
