SOCA02H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Surgeon General Of The United States, Antimicrobial Resistance, Social Constructionism
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A state of complete physical, mental, and social well being. Health is as much social as biological: related to: Rich live upstream: toronto vs. countryside, race. Income and obesity: bottom 20%, 5 times top 20% We are major engineers of viral traffic, but are unaware of it. : pathways. Population density: viruses need a reservoir or die out, stepping off a plane . Us surgeon general in 1967 claims contagious diseases will be wiped out : vaccines, anti-biotics. Mdr (antibiotic resistance: new york contained, russia. Medical/biological: bacteria inevitably develop some resistance. Social: use in factory farming, overprescribe to patients. Social distribution of cancer: blacks, higher cancer rates. Amount of media attention to an issue is often unrelated to its objective seriousness. Aids as novel: like white bread. Aids seen as general threat: contagious, risk factors seen as more controllable. Power: aids activists young, educated, women tend to be more elderly. Comprehensive coverage for all services requiring hospitalization.
