Social Demography of Health

Cards (22)

  • Demography
    The study ,statistic analysis of human population
  • Social Demography
    The study of human population based on social,economic and political causes and consequences
  • Social demography relationship of health and ;
    Gender
    Age
    Social class
    Ethnic
  • Sex is biological/genetics to determine men and women
  • Gender
    Socially or culturally constructed differences of men and women
  • Gender/sex role
    Patter of behaviour of partivular society expects from individuals either sex
  • Ageing population structure in developed societies
    Demography transition
    • increased the number of death rates
    • increased life expectancy of birth
    • chronic disease
  • Social stigma
    A bit difficult for the healthcare worker to manage the illness because of social stigma .This occur because of visibility of the symptoms and people perception
  • Gender
    Mostly women have higher chances to develop disease but men have higher chances to mortality
  • Challenges of age seniors
    Physical
    Pyschological
    Financial
  • Physical
    • Less transportation
    • lower accessbility
    • health issues
  • Less transportation
    Exp for those who disabilities and live in rural areas where public transportation is less
  • Lower accessbility in living environment
    Have lower chances to manage their daily activities exp if they have stairs,pass through the door
  • Health issues
    Older people have high chances to develop other complication disease
  • Psychological
    -ageism discrimination
    -social isololation
    -lack of skill to digital
  • Financial
    • Financial issues
    • Lack of employment opportunities
  • Reasons for sociological interest of health
    • Problem faced by medicine in treating illness
    • Medicine looked to sociology
  • Social class
    The lower social class ,the lower health status of people
  • Ethnic
    A group of people have the same characteristic which same national,races and cultural that speak the same languange
  • Racism
    Prejudice and discrimination of a individual or a group towards a particular group of races
  • Ethnic
    Mostly indies develop non-communicable disease(NCD)
    Malay develop bad habit
    Chinese at older age are less to develop NCD
  • The group the often origin belong,have same physical characteristic such as skin colour and eye shape
    Races