SOC 2101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Social Class, Evidence-Based Medicine, Social Epidemiology
29 Oct 2012
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The interaction(s) of complex disease producing factors. Distribution, spread and cause of non-infectious and infectious diseases (biological or social factors left out of the diagnosis) Not just biological phenomena and medical knowledge. Disease is embedded within social, economic and cultural contexts. Regardless of infectious, genetic, metabolic, malignant or degenerative nature of disease. What it looks like, under a microscope. Host: the site an agent creates disease human, blood. Destroys the immune system: socially it tells us you can get it from doing certain activities, no boundary around who can contract it. Causing good or poor health care to be available. Health, disease and mortality at population level: whether a population is sick and what is making them sick. Health is better at top than bottom (ses socioeconomic standings) sometimes being at the bottom is healthier, you have to walk everywhere, you buy groceries more than fast food because it is cheaper.
