SYO 4400 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Cardiovascular Disease, Population Health, Social Class
Thursday, January 11, 2018
Title
-Delivery, corporate structures (ex: insurance companies), economic interests, and
political economy influence health care in the United States!
-Health: A state of physical, mental, and social well-being (WHO definition)!
-Illness: Individual response to disease!
-Disease: Structural or physical dysfunction!
-Health service system: Public, private, and voluntary programs of care!
-Factors affecting care-seeking behavior!
-Race, ethnicity, gender, age, religious beliefs, illness perceptions, access, dr-pt
relations!
Barton ch2!
-Population health: Indicators that measure the distribution of health of members of a
given population!
-Lifespan: The maximum number of years a member of a species can survive from
birth!
-Life expectancy: The average number of years an individual can b expected to live
after birth, taking into account environmental factors!
•Avg) 78.8 years!
-Women live longer than men, whites live longer than blacks!
-Leading causes of death!
•Heart disease!
•Cancer!
•Chronic lower resp diseases!
•Unintentional injuries- med errors falls under this (young white men)!
•Stroke!
•Alzheimer’s!
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Document Summary
Delivery, corporate structures (ex: insurance companies), economic interests, and political economy in uence health care in the united states. Health: a state of physical, mental, and social well-being (who de nition) Health service system: public, private, and voluntary programs of care. Race, ethnicity, gender, age, religious beliefs, illness perceptions, access, dr-pt relations. Population health: indicators that measure the distribution of health of members of a given population. Lifespan: the maximum number of years a member of a species can survive from birth. Life expectancy: the average number of years an individual can b expected to live after birth, taking into account environmental factors: avg) 78. 8 years. Women live longer than men, whites live longer than blacks. Leading causes of death: heart disease, cancer, chronic lower resp diseases, unintentional injuries- med errors falls under this (young white men, stroke, alzheimer"s. Thursday, january 11, 2018: diabetes, in uenza and pneumonia, nephritis/ nephrosis, suicide (young white women)