[HLTB41H3] - Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam (58 pages long!)
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Bodies count, and body counts: social epidemiology and embodying. Inequality nancy krieger and george davey smith, 2004. By counting people, epidemiologists derive estimates of population rates and risks of morbidity and mortality. Bodies also provide vivid evidence of how we literally embody the world in which we live. These aspects of out being are predictive of future health outcomes, and social and biologic origins and trajectories. The construct and reality of embodiment the causes and consequences of bodily constitution. How social influences become embodied into physic-anatomic characteristics that influence health and become expressed in societal disparities in health. Peoples behavioural, emotional and cognitive responses to adverse and beneficial circumstances may influence somatic health. Psychosocial adversity impairs the quality of peoples lives; whether or not it harms somatic health. The ways in which societal conditions shape expression of biologic traits, population distribution of disease and social inequalities in health. In the bones: the long-standing centrality of embodiment to epidemiology.
