Health Sciences 1002A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 19: Structural Violence, Global Health, Economic Globalization

• School: Western University
• Department: Health Sciences
• Course: Health Sciences 1002A/B
• Professor: Jessica Polzer

Document Summary

Health science lecture 19 - global health inequalities and structural violence. Enduring health disparities between countries: systematic differences with health indicators. Infant mortality and child mortality are good measures of social determinants of health. If (cid:455)ou die (cid:271)efo(cid:396)e (cid:455)ou(cid:859)(cid:396)e (cid:1009), it is ofte(cid:374) due to so(cid:272)ial (cid:272)o(cid:374)ditio(cid:374)s. Lower income countries have distinct gradients: richest families have the lowest child mortality with a step up as you go down the ladder. World child mortality rate: 72: larger in sub saharan africa, south asia etc. Child mortality (death before the age of 5) (infant mortality is before age 1: sierra leone (316 per 1000 live births) Child mortality rose in the 1990s by 43% in zimbabwe, 52% in botswana and 75% in iraq. Probability of death for men between the ages of 15 and 60: sweden: 8. 3, zimbabwe: 82. 1, lesotho: 90. 2% (cid:862)de(cid:448)elopi(cid:374)g(cid:863) (cid:272)ou(cid:374)t(cid:396)ies. 72 are high mortality countries, 46 in africa. Countries that are not as advanced as industrialized countries.