SOC 322LEC Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Cardiovascular Disease, Judith Butler, Social Capital
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The different ways to watch health trends. Social demography how health, illness and health care utilization are distributed within a population. Relationship between health and ascribed (master) statuses i. e. age, sex and race. Rltnshp btwn health and variable statuses such as. Medical demographers risk behavior and health statuses as predictors for needs for services. Processes fertility, mortality, and migration studied in terms of health and medicine. Demographic processes as indicators of health status of populations. Need multiple cases to form a concise conclusion. Effects of population forces on the delivery of medical services. Medicaid pays for ~50% of births in the us. Determinants of health: genetics, social circumstances, environmental conditions, behavioral choices, medical care. Variations imbalances in investments in health-supporting resources health and health care disparities. Not as large of gap between men and women. Still existed, men do hard labor, women work at home. Infectious disease, sanitation, women see more of these benefits.