HTW 309 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Racial Segregation In The United States, Census Tract, Infant Mortality
22 Jan 2020
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The single largest determinant of disease and illness for population health is poverty -- Macro level: national power and money does not equal population health. The united states: one of the richest, most powerful countries. Half of all health care dollars in the world are spent each year on the us. Jared bernsetin coined the term yoyo -- you"re on your own. Describe societies that leave citizens to find for themselves to gain resources, opportunities and consequently health. A better alternative -- witt we"re in this together. Mechanisms for poor health contributions to health disparities. Listen to it again before writing essay 1. Widely used measure of racial residential segregation within geographic areas. Represents the degree to which the minority group is distributed differently than whites across census tracts. Scale: 0 (no segregation) - 100 (complete segregation) Greater than 60 -- very highly segregated. Value: reflects the percentage of the population that would need to move to.
