SOC100 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Collective Action, Health System, Talcott Parsons
26 Nov 2017
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Infant mortality rate: number of deaths before the age of one for every 1000 live births in a population in one year. Morbidity rates: number of people who suffer from certain illnesses per 10000 members of a population. Life expectancy: average age of death in a population. Epidemiological transition: shift from a society characterized by infectious and parasitic illness with a short le to one of chronic and degenerate illnesses but longer le. Socioeconomic gradient in health: positive correlation between socio-economic position and health. Intersectionality theory: effects of socioeconomic position, race and gender on health are multiplicative not additive. That means the effect of being x is __ and the effect of being y is ___ but the effect of being both is xy not x + y. Health care system: a (cid:374)atio(cid:374)"s (cid:272)li(cid:374)i(cid:272)s, hospitals a(cid:374)d othe(cid:396) fa(cid:272)ilities to t(cid:396)eat ill(cid:374)ess.
