PUBHLTH 102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Human Capital, Observational Study, Earned Income Tax Credit

• School: UC-Irvine
• Department: Public Health
• Course: PUBHLTH 102
• Professor: Theodore Gideonse

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Throughout history and across societies: the poor die first, the poor have higher rates of diseases, injuries, disabilities; the wealthy have lower, this is true across the lifespan. It(cid:859)s g(cid:396)adie(cid:374)t: from poor, to middle class, to the rich, the rates for most illnesses decreases, the rates for most positive markers increase. What does socioeconomic status refer to: 3 key markers are: Money: note: these are things we can quantify and operationalize. What can we do when we identify these statuses: simple: determine where to focus services, complicated: figure out how to intervene. The causal relationship between ses and health is not as obvious as the correlation (cid:862)fu(cid:374)da(cid:373)e(cid:374)tal cause theory(cid:863) Explains inequalities persisting across time and geography. (cid:862)as (cid:374)e(cid:449) diseases e(cid:373)e(cid:396)ge, (cid:374)e(cid:449) i(cid:374)e(cid:395)ualities e(cid:373)e(cid:396)ge. (cid:863) (cid:894) e, (cid:1005)(cid:1013)(cid:895) Focus on both individual and population risk factors. Ignoring social context might lead interventions to fail because they are focused on behaviors influence by factors external to the intervention.