DVM 2110 Chapter Notes -Junk Food, Disease Surveillance, Prenatal Care
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However, behaviours are mediated by political, cultural, economic, and other determinants of health. Cancer via smoking is more prevalent among the working-class smokers than the upper-class and cessation and education are more successful with the privileged. Congenital conditions are effected by prenatal care, which are affected by nutrition, household services, housing, etc. 90% of world grain trade is controlled via 5 companies: increasing consumption of empty calories , ie. junk food, even in poor nations. Include forms of stratification such as patriarchy, racism, and class structure, the nature of land tenure, and the structure of the political system. Land tenure: particularly a factor for small-scale agriculture and subsistence farming is practised. Due to debt caused by gm seeds, many farmers in india have committed suicide: social structure, class. Material conditions have an enormous bearing on health. Workers may have less political power and higher stress levels: gender. In the ussr, men deal with higher mortality rates.