SOC382 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, White Privilege, Asubpeeschoseewagong First Nation
4 Oct 2017
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Chapter 3- the social determinants of health and illness: age, sex/gender, and. Causes of death also vary by age, as do patterns of morbidity. Patterns of morbidity demonstrate a positive association with age, such that older canadians are more likely to have a chronic illness: despite this trend, it would be a mistake to assume that old age is characterized by illness/decline. While old age is not necessarily characterized by illness and decline, health care costs do increase with age. Sex- biological categories of male and female, to which we are assigned based on our chromosome structure and physical appearance (problematic dichotomy: male or female) ; women more likely to report stress from interpersonal relationships: differences in behaviour sedentary (women more likely to be sedentary), smoking. Important to understand that sex and gender intersect, but never in the same 2 ways should always be disease/condition specific.
