SOCI 335 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Genetic Variation, Longitudinal Study, Binge Eating
9 Mar 2016
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General topic: the social stratification of aging and health. Aim: examine the social inequalities in health to reach postponement of morbidity and mortality for total population (not subsections) Mechanisms: risky health behaviors (i. e. smoking, binge eating, drinking, lack of social relationships and support, chronic and acute stress, lack of control. Health behaviors, weight, drinking, social relay, stress, self-esteem: education and income predict declines in health over time; these effects are greater in early-middle life (divergence and convergence) Explain: psychosocial risk factors explain the longitudinal effects of education and income; risk factors are predictive of health, ses has as causal impact on health, ses predicts and is hence likely a cause of most psychosocial risk factors. So, ses is a predictor of health, due to different exposure to psychosocial risk factors across ses and age groups. Need for knowledge on ses disparities in health. Preventable health problems concentrated among lower ses groups.
