HLTH 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Gini Coefficient, Rudolf Virchow, Maximal Function
17 Mar 2018
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Rudolph virchow came of age with a typhoid outbreak in 1847 and the failed revolutions of 1848. Insights from this: (1) the spread of disease has much to do with appalling living conditions and (2) those in power have enormous means to subjugate the powerless. Physicians are the natural attorneys of the poor. Poverty and poor health go hand in hand. Every step downward in ses correlates with poorer health. Lower ses = poorer health, but also poorer health = lower ses. For the poor, health care may be less easily accessible and of lower quality. Unhealthy lifestyles (no access to health care does not increase chance of diabetes or cancer), such as smoking, drinking, unhealthy food or drinks, etc. Chronic activation of stress response results in impaired cognitive and health functions. Adler study to see how people feel about their situation. Greater disaprities in income between the poorest and the wealthiest in a community predict worse average health.
