SOC 1100 Chapter Notes - Chapter 19: Sick Role, Aromatherapy, High Tech
10 Aug 2016
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Chapter #19: health and medicine page #476-498: Introduction: health risks are unevenly distributed in human populations. Still, many low-income and moderate-income canadians have limited or no access to many health services: the average health status of americans is lower than the average health status of people in other rich postindustrial countries. In some respects, modern medicine is a victim of its own success. The black death: originating in asia, the epidemic spread along trade routes and slowly the disease spread. The social causes of illness and death: people get sick and die because of natural causes in many cases, over and above such natural causes of illness and death, we can single out 3 types of social causes. Infant mortality is the number of deaths before the age of 1 for every 1000 live births in a population in 1 year.
