SOC239H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Married People, Repetitive Strain Injury, Social Capital
23 Jan 2016
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Look at how age, sex, gender and race/ethnicity combine with biological forces to inequitably distribute illness, disability and death in a population. Age is the most important predictor of mortality and morbidity. Women are in the forefront of the aging process -also disadvantaged due to fewer protective health mechanisms such as affluence. Canadian seniors are doing betterhowever there is more rates of diabetes. Frailty is new, because people are living longer. Women now live on average 4. 7 to 7 years more than men. Women experience more disability and men die quickly. Heart disease rates are high among women and men -different symptoms, the rates for men a dropping. Medicine"s tendency to have a social and cultural power that goes beyond its original medical mandate-what we call medicalization was a hot topic in the 20th century biomedicine. Pharmaceutical industry and its ally doctors were under criticism. During the first phase of the debate it was gender neutral.
