SOC248 Chapter Notes - Chapter 5: Infant Mortality, Visible Minority, List Of Sovereign States By Suicide Rate

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Chapter 5: social inequity, disease and death in canada. Gender gap in canada today is 21% and has decreased substantially. Black women earn 10% less than the average of all canadian women. Female single-parent families have the lowest average total income among families. There are sex differences in the incidence and prognosis for numbers of diseases e. g. , Hiv/aids, tb, cvd etc: m tend to have shorter le, while w tend to live longer lives and live them in the context of chronic illnesses and disabilities. Ethnicity and racialization are an important hierarchal and cultural component of. In canada, there is an increase in the aging population (esp in w) and a decrease in younger population trend expected to continue like this until at least 2036. Population pyramid most basic graphic method used to describe age distribution of a population. Most important factor in population aging is the overall decline in birth rates.

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