Unit 12

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  • Health
    A state of complete physical, metal, and social well being and not merely the absence of disease
  • Epidemiological transition
    Historical changes in patterns of morbidity and mortality, from a predominance of infectious and parasitic diseases to degenerative diseases
  • Morbidity
    The prevalence and patterns of disease in a population
  • Mortality
    The incidence and patterns of death in a population
  • Social selection hypothesis
    The suggestion that people with mental disorders may drift into lower levels of socioeconomic status or be prevented from raising out of lower levels of status
  • Social causation hypothesis
    The suggestion that the stress associated with having a lower socioeconomic status contribute to the development of disorders
  • Healthy immigrant effect
    Recent immigrants tend to have better health that people who are Canadian born
  • Tobacco use is the leading cause of preventable death on the world
    • increase use in low - middle income countries
    • decrease in high income countries
  • Leading causes of death
    General - Cancer, heart disease, stroke
    Women - Cancer, heart disease, stroke
    Men - Cancer, heart disease, Accident
  • Alcohol use
    • 2% of death for females and 7% of death for males
    • increase harm in high income countries
  • Poor diet
    • increase amount of ultra processed food being consumed
    • impacts Indigenous, poor educated, and youth more
  • Sickness
    According to interactionist perspectives, _________ is apathology of the body
  • Population pyramid
    A horizontal bar chart that shows how many peopleare in the various age groups, divided by sex
  • Illness
    According to interactionist perspectives, __________ is themeaning attached to a physical experience
  • Sick role
    According to functionalist theorists, the pattern ofexpectations that define appropriate behaviour for the sick and forthose who take care of them
  • Four phases of epidemio­logical transition
    1. Famine
    2. decline in epidemics and lower birth rate
    3. infectious and parasitic diseases declined even further
    4. delayed degenerative diseases and emerging infections
  • Goals of health care
    • universality
    • portability
    • comprehensive coverage
    • accessibility