Health Sciences 1002A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Asthma, Whitehall Study, Ed Broadbent
1 Feb 2015
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Social determinants don"t act in isolation, they influence each other (don"t have a good income, not a good job with insurance, can"t afford good housing or education) Mean (average) income for all canadians (** know trends for exam, not exact numbers) Average income over the last several years has increased in canada (dual-income families, single-parents are less) Mean is misleading because it extremely influenced by the top-earners, the wealthy people"s income is pulling up the mean, skewing the number. Median- how many people fall below and above that that middle number middle data. Median doesn"t give you a good idea of the spread of the data, just the. ^ the rich get richer, the poor get poorer in after-tax income. Quintiles- look at 20% segments, and changes by those 20% segments. Top 10% making 25% more than the poorest 10% in 1981 and then the.
