HLST 1010 Chapter 1: Chapter One Summary

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Chapter one from the textbook staying alive is an in depth explanation of the epidemiological approach to health and its determinants in specified populations. The chapter discusses how and which factors lead to diseases in human health. This section looks at health from a cellular level to discover diseases that occur in the human body. America is one of the wealthiest countries in the world but health diseases are at an all time high due to poverty. Countries like japan that are not as wealthy but have positive health distribution and have low death rates. In many countries, an individual s income can determine whether they are healthy or not. A wealthier person can afford better health care and medication, whereas a lower income person might not be able to afford the same care. If wealth was properly distributed amongst the population then each individual would have an equal healthy life.

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