SOC382 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Cerebrovascular Disease, Health Promotion, Airborne Disease
18 Sep 2017
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Chapter 2- the social sources of disease and death. Disease- a biological problem within an organism. Illness- the social experience of having a disease. These circumstances are in turn shaped by a wider set of forces: economics, so(cid:272)ial poli(cid:272)ies, a(cid:374)d politi(cid:272)s(cid:863: encompasses a lot of different dimensions of human life, central to what social epidemiologists do. Morbidity symptoms, illnesses, and impairments: to assess the overall health of a population, the rate of serious morbidity in a population is calculated. Mortality deaths; who dies from what. Incidence the number of new cases of an illness or health problem that occur within a given population during a given time period; tells us how the scope is changing over time. Prevalence the total number of cases of an illness or health problem within a given population at a particular point in time (includes a recurrent patient; remission); tells us the scope of the problem.
