SOC100H5 Chapter Notes - Chapter 11: Health System, Sour Gas, Mercury Poisoning
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How black death illustrates health outcomes: health risks unevenly distributed in society (gender, race, ses, advantaged/disadvantaged, health problems change over time (improved via development of drugs/therapies) Issues w/ cures in the past (balancing fluids in the body) Life expectancy: average age at death in a population. Increase in life expectancy overtime: rich countries have higher life expectancy. Infant mortality: annual number of deaths before the age of one for every 1000 live births in a population. Health (who definition): a state of complete physical, social and mental well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity. What are social causes of illness and death: human-environment factors. Environmental racism: the tendency to heap environmental dangers on the disadvantaged: e. g. , hazardous waste sites and polluting industries to be located near first nations communities or areas populated by the poor . Introduction of sour gas wells and logging operations around lubicon population, increase in illness.
