SOC100H5 Chapter Notes -Social Isolation, Muscular System, Sick Role
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Example: sour gas wells and lodging operations caused 1/3 population of. Lower social-economic class tend to live in more dangerous environments. Lubicon first nation in alberta to have tuberculosis, cancer and respiratory illness at rates far higher than national average the disadvantaged. Canadian women due to tendency of dumping chemicals in the north. Breast milk of inuit women 10x more contaminated than southern. Environmental racism: the tendency to heap environmental dangers on: lifestyle factors. Unmarried people more likely to die prematurely due to social isolation: public health and health care system factors. Public health system: comprises of government-run programs that ensure access to clean drinking water, sewage, saniation and inoculation against infectious disease facilities for ensuring health and treating illness. Lower classes experience more difficult living conditions and cannot turn stress of by going on vacation. Unequal access to health resources care, dentistry, mental health counselling and prescription drugs. Lower class have less knowledge about healthy lifestyle.
