HLTC05H3 Study Guide - Cortisol, Mortality Displacement, Aspirin
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Give examples of both everyday racism and structural racism, and describe how these might affect health in different ways. We are determined by our genes, what we see in our biology is innately who we are, and what we are born to be. Living in american should be good health = highest gdp in world. But the stats, live shorter and sicker lives then any industrial nation. Higher percentage of babies die in first yr then other countries. 47 m of them have no health care coverage. Aspirin cures fever, lack should be reason why there is fever false. Body=life time of experience, more powerful than our genes. Twins, same life, as they grow one goes professional one becomes working class = different health. Dr. troutman- sdoh, major thing that shapes health outcomes. Excess death able to predict within a timeframe how much people will die, if the actual rate is larger that is excess.
