Social Demography of Health

• 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