SOC 203 Study Guide - Final Guide: Ascribed Status, Job Satisfaction, Global Health
15 Jul 2016
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Social determinants of health: the complex causal relationships between various social, economic and political factors and population health outcomes. Bio psychosocial view of health and illness: considers health and disease as products of the interaction between body, mind, and environment. Mortality rate: the death rate associated with a given disease or population, typically measured as deaths per year per 1000 people. Threats to canadian global health: aids pandemic, sars, Epidemiology: an applied science that examines the causes, distribution and control of disease in a population. State: set of public organizations that makes and enforces decisions binding each member of society, elected government, civil service, courts, police, and military. Ideology: a system of beliefs that explains how society is, or should be; any system of ideas underlying and informing political action. In a marxist sense, ideological ideas justify and legitimize subordination of one group to another.
