PSYC 320 Chapter Notes - Chapter 12: Cardiac Output, Transphobia, Condom
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Chapter 12 gender and physical health: women outlive men but report higher rates of illness. How have understandings of health and longevity changed. Life expectancy: the average length of time a person is expected to live, based on year of birth. Ethnicity: white people outlive black people 3. 6 years, latino outlive black people 6. 6 years, latino outlive white people 3 years. Sexual orientation: lgb from antigay communities live 12 years shorter than lgb from welcoming communities. Mortality (death) and morbidity (sickness: leading causes of death in us. 1900 infectious diseases as pneumonia and tuberculosis. Vaccines, antibiotics, refrigeration, mosquito control, improved understandings of health and health care led people live longer. As longevity increased, diseases of old age replaced infectious diseases among top causes of death: e. g. , heart disease, cancer, alzheimer"s disease, top causes of death in 2010. Except alzheimer"s disease, men die at higher rates than women.