Health Sciences 2000A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Social Capital, French Paradox, Cardiovascular Disease
17 Dec 2016
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Social determinants of health (also called social epidemiology) A claim that health disparities between people are not (exclusively) caused by individual choices but due to social-environmental factors: leo syme: we consider you non-infectious disease to be your problem. In translation, it is considered to be your fault. Doctors started to see that certain features in people made them more likely to be sick, or become more sick once diagnosed. Bad people become alcoholic, there are certain components that put forces on people to acquire certain habits. When putting faults on the individuals, they are normally physical conditions (sti, When it comes to mental health, ptsd and trauma, we are seeing that it is commutable. Different than contagious, but people who live with people with mental illness, there are more chances of them becoming mentally ill. This is due to living with someone with ptsd is traumatic in itself. The poorer the people are, the more they are sick.
