SOC239H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Social Capital, Comfort Food, Alarm Signal
28 Mar 2017
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February 13, 2017: provide a sociological definition of religion. Draw from socio- psychological theories you have learned in this course. In the class, we are moving towards a more micro level look at health. Infant mortality rate of canada: 1980: 10/1000 ranked 10th of the 30 countries, 2005: 5. 3/1000 but ranked a lot lower than the 30 countries, more countries were above canada. Canada moved down lower in the ranks: gdp in canada is higher than many oecd countries. But health indicators are lower than many of them: sweden is a good comparison. A swede is less wealthy than an average canadian: provides three important indicators to measure sdh (social determinants of. Health) in canada: income inequality, incidence of poverty and housing affordability: canada with a higher percentage of low-paying jobs (25%). This is abetter predictor of child poverty: toba asserts: problems of social inequality have been noted in government documents, by experts.
