Health Sciences 1002A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Social Medicine, Invisible Hand, Germ Theory Of Disease
15 Sep 2016
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Emile durkheim acknowledged that suicide is not only individual reason but also society reasons. Life expectancy depends on county- canada ranked top belong japan and sweden. Low economic status and aboriginals are more valuable to illness, premature deaths, and drug/smoking behaviour. Aboriginals are 5x-7x more likely to commit suicide. Health sociology explores the social context of health and illness-social, economic, cultural, and political features of society that influence why groups gets sicker and die sooner than others. Mid-nineteenth century the development of social medicine or aka public health . Use of epidemiology (pattern of diseases in the population) to understand and prevent spread of diseases. Virchow was an advocate for public health, argued that the state should act to redistribute social resources to improve access to enough nutrition to people. Therefore, public and social medicine grew due to the recognition the social environment played a role.
