SOCA02H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 9: Intensive Animal Farming, Dengue Fever, Cancer Cluster
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Health: un definition, however, suffer from mental illness. State of complete physical/ mental/ social well-being. Aging + nuisance afflictions (small pains in your pain from time to time: is social as much as biological. Related to social inequality/ technology/ social resources/ social constructionism: higher life expectancy over time; huge increases since 1900s. Health stratification: rich live upstream where there is better conditions, poor living in bad environmental conditions. Do better as they"re away from problematic things. Bottom 20% are 5x as obese as the top 20: gender stratification ie. women dying more from open heart surgery. Stints were made for men; too large. Disease ecology: need contact to contract, we engineer viral traffic. Population density ie. dengue fever from mice. Survive by living in houses/ invading malls: we create pathways, large population = reservoir disease can use to survive, either you die or it dies out, ship vs. plane. Held offshore until virus dies out if it is present.
