SOC243H1 Chapter Notes -Tuberculosis, Typhoid Fever, Malnutrition
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Social determinants of health: the study of the range of social factors that influence the health status of individuals or populations, rate, the proportion of a population that experiences a given condition or certain circumstance, # of evens in a given period / specified population during that period *(100) Prevalence: the total number of cases of an illness or health problem within a given population at a particular point in time, better measures chronic illness, # of persons living with disease in canada/population of canada * (100,000, acute illness, any illness that strikes suddenly and disappears rapidly (within 1 month or so) examples: chicken pox, colds, influenza, chronic illness, illness that develops in an individual gradually or is present from birth and that will probably continue at least for several months and possibly until the person dies, morbidity, symptoms, illnesses, or impairments, mortality, death.
