SOCI-102 Chapter Notes - Chapter 10: Electronic Health Record, Sick Role, Iatrogenesis
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Chapter 10 health and illness as social problems: health state of complete social, mental, physical well being. Work hard for your future self. but a social one too: physical and mental wellness are intertwined. Physical illness can cause emotional problems and mental illness can produce physical symptoms: there is a misconception that the more money spent on health care the better the mental, physical and social wellbeing of individuals. This is obviously not true, otherwise the usa would be the healthiest and ttest: life expectancy an estimate of the average lifetime of people born in a speci c year, is relatively easy to measure. Easy to measure: canadians live an average of three years longer than americans, infant morality rate number of deaths of infants under one year old per 100 live births in a given year. Important because it describes the society"s preventive medical care.
