SOC364H1 Midterm: SOC 364 H1 Midterm Review.docx
Document Summary
Definitions, patterns, and explanations of urban health: historical and contemporary trends and perspectives of urban health, alternative perspectives of urban health, neighbourhood effects on mental health. Infant mortality rates, life expectancy, mental health, quality of life, chronic conditions. Urban determinants of health patterns: how does the urban context impact health, four broad areas. The social and demographic characteristics of individuals: ie: gender, age, family form. Physical environment: air quality, infrastructure, accessibility, safe drinking water, garbage removal, noise, overcrowding. Structure of social relationships within the community: ie: social capital, cohesion, networks, support. Access to safe social spaces: movie clip, the social life of small urban spaces, key feature physical structure. People in groups can tell you a lot. Popular places are groups of 2 and 3: but most used places are spots where one can be alone. Most common activity in public place: people watching. People tend to sit where there are places to sit: cities don"t heed this advice.
