SOC 506 Lecture 2: Health and Society week 2
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1: the social sources of disease and death, chapter 2. Objectives measure the health of a population: recognize and understand common epidemiological terms (used to, understand changes in population health over the past few centuries, evaluate explanations for improved life expectancy. Identify different models used to theorize the social determinants of health. Example of mortality rate: number of deaths in canada in 2009 x 1000. The crude mortality rate in canada in 2009 was 7. 1 per 1,000. 2: the epidemiological transition: the shift from a society burdened by infectious and parasitic diseases (with low life expectancy) to one characterized by chronic and degenerative diseases (with high life expectancy) In canada, life expectancy in 1950 was 66 years for men and 71 years for women: today, life expectancy in canada is 78 years for men and 83 years for women. Mckeown thesis: mckeown argued that the efficacy of medicine in curing disease and improving life expectancy has been overstated.
