Health Sciences 1002A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Kidney Disease, Dysentery, Diphtheria
3 Sep 2018
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Top 10 causes of death in canada in 1881: smallpox, typhus, cholera, diphtheria, dysentery, measles, tuberculosis, typhoid, scarlet fever, medical advances play a great role in determining mortality rates. Meningitis advances= greater mortality rates: with improved healthcare and introduction of vaccines top 10 causes of disease shifted from infectious diseases to chronicle. Social determinants of health: the social, economic, and environmental conditions key to individual, community and population health. General socio-economic, cultural and environmental conditions: living condition, housing, healthcare services, water and sanitation, unemployment, working conditions, work environment, education, agriculture and food production. Sherman-wentworth neighborhood: 1 in 7 mom"s teens, average household: ,000, 1 in 4 adults don"t have high school. Life-course perspective: social determinants impact us at every stage in life, cumulative effect of social determinants on risks for disease, longer exposure = increases impact, earlier = increases impact.
