Geography 2411F/G Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: List Of Sovereign States By Suicide Rate, Autotomy, Tuberculosis

• School: Western University
• Department: Geography
• Course: Geography 2411F/G
• Professor: Professor Richmond

Document Summary

Indigenous environments lecture summary week 6: health and well-being. Solutions for health and disease must be explored beyond the traditional domains of: (1) genetics (2) access to health care (3) health behaviours. Beyond these 3 domains, vulnerable and socially disadvantaged people: have less access to health resources; get sicker; die earlier. The social determinants of health are the economic and social circumstances within which people live. This refers to the ways these circumstances can lead people to different health outcomes. For example, contemporary patterns of indigenous mortality (e. g. death) and morbidity (e. g. For example, contemporary patterns of indigenous mortality (e. g. death) and morbidity (e. g. illness) are biological reflections of marginalization and environmental dispossession. I(cid:374)dige(cid:374)ous people(cid:859)s e(cid:454)pe(cid:396)ie(cid:374)(cid:272)es of i(cid:374)e(cid:395)ualit(cid:455) is lite ally e(cid:373)(cid:271)odied. At the population level, indigenous people die earlier, and they are sicker than non-indigenous people. There are some key differences: demographics (pop distributions); disease states and morbidities (chronic and infectious disease); health behaviours (smoking, injuries); causes of mortality.