SOCA02H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 16: Sydney Tar Ponds, Talcott Parsons, Black Canadians
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Health behavior in school aged children (hbsc) survey carried out every 4 years answers questions based on social determinants of health of canadian students from grade 5-10 structural functionalism. In a stable society, all institutional forces work together to create and maintain good health for population. Karl marx who wrote about how development of capitalism advanced mechanism in agriculture and forced farm workers off land and into cities to survive, lived in slums and plagued by diseases. Hilary graham"s work on home health-care work done by women interpretive theories. Examination of the reasons of growing incidence/prevalence of breast cancer is that it is a women"s disease sociology of health, illness, disease, and sickness. Broadest level- comparison within and between societies around world and over time with rates, causes, and treatments for health and sickness and death. Next level- morbidity/mortality within societies and cultures and comparison of people of difference social statuses, plus socio-psychological factors.
