KIN 261 Study Guide - Biomedicine, Social Stigma, Child Mortality
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Hkin 261 week 9 lecture summary notes social determinants of health: this class. Part 3: tutorial: race for well-being: health in a global context. There are large differences between countries with respect to life expectancy (a key health measure). Other common measures include under 5 mortality rates/1000 births. Globally has declined from 88 in 1990 to 57 in 2010. *in low- and middle-income countries, 4 of the top 10 causes of death are infectious diseases. *in high-income countries, 9 of the top 10 causes of death are non-communicable diseases. We can look at some of these factors: Personal and cultural health practices (nutrition, exercise, etc ) Hans rosling a physician, researcher, and statistician who has dedicated much of his work to understanding disparities in health. Focused primarily on income in that video (one social determinant of health) Income may be the most important/significant determinant in that it is interrelated with other determinants (but it is not the only one)
