HLTH102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Palliative Care, Social Isolation, Slippery Slope

• School: University of Waterloo
• Department: Health Studies
• Course: HLTH102
• Professor: Kelly Anthony

Document Summary

Adults w/ mental illness are 70% more likely to smoke - > very correlational. Low ses also highly correlated w/ mental illness. Smoking and low ses are also highly correlated. No casual link b/w smoking and becoming mental. Lung cancer, hd, stroke, diabetes are very correlated and dangerous and linked to smoking, also. 1/5 has or will experience mental illness in canada. Rates seem to be highest in usa - > still lack of credible stats. Are lot of doctors are comfortable w/ mental illness- > biomedical training. Lots of practitioners in usa - > lots of business. Lots of income disparity - > stress and strain. Pollution exposure- > bpa, plastics, etc ~ lead of the 60"s - > cognitive decline. Globally, not everybody recognizes mental illness- > people illness might not be validated as an illness. We know that starvation - > anorexia, bulimia = organ failure.