SOC100H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Socialized Medicine, Health Care In Canada, Prescription Drug
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Life expectancy is the average age at death of the members of a population. Health is a state of complete physical, social and mental well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity- measuring health consists of analyzing the rates of illness and death. Social causes of illness and death-human-environmental factors (environmental. Hiv/aids is the leading cause of death in the africa. Infant mortality is the number of deaths before the age of one for every 1000 live births in a population in one year- is low in canada, japan and usa. Reasons for health deteriorating in poor people: high stress and inability to cope with it, difference in the early stages of development that have lifelong consequences, lack of knowledge, unequal access to health resources and environmental resources. Morbidity- acute and chronic illness; women not allowed to participate in medical research, women go through fewer medical treatments, and women experience greater risk of disability as they live longer.
