PSYC 3110 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Social Inequality, Ozone Depletion, Prenatal Vitamins
2 Oct 2018
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Topics in health psychology lecture 3 and chapters 2 & 3. Social inequality and health: this lecture is focusing on the general socioeconomic, cultural and environmental conditions. Epidemics: pathogens based, but how they affect us varies, sanitation, vaccinations, healthcare systems, hospitals, 3. Human inducing problems (cid:523)pollution; global warming(cid:495) ozone depletion: all of these things are correlated with a range of different health scientific funding war) outcomes. There is more agency and lifestyle choices are a greater determinant of health. Interconnectedness of global economy: economic factors create context for astounding range of human phenomena- including health, illness, health care, impact of financial crisis, example: as a result of the us hosing crisis in 2008, people in. Iceland lost jobs: there can also be positive outcomes, such as drugs and vaccinations (ebola, global debt, poor countries are given loans by richer countries and they accumulate debt. A large portion of the gdp goes towards debt, inhibiting funding of infrastructure, education, and healthcare.
