HLTB41H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Edwin Chadwick, Scientism, Social Medicine
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Chapter 1: imagining health problems as social issues. Introduction: the social context of health and illness. Individualistic view our personal experience of illness. Social patterning of suicide was first identified by emile durkheim found that suicide rates varied between different countries and social groups within countries. Health-adjusted life expectancy (hale) represents the number of years people can expect to live without chronic illness or disability: canada = 70 for men & 74 for women. Canada ranks high in the le and hale scales in the world purely due to social context rather than a biological advantage in our canadian gene pool because: le can change in a short period of time. Le increased by 20 years since the 1920s: over a period of time immigrants tend to reflect the health of their host country versus the health off their country of origin.
