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The Social Demography of Health

Chapter 3

Demography: the study of the characteristics of populations rather than samples

Demographers: people who collect data to describe the composition, distribution and sizes of various components of health populations and how these variables change over time. Changes usually occur due to births, deaths, emigration and immigration.

Types of Demographics

1. Age

2. Gender

3. Race

4. Social Class

Components of Social Class

Modern Diseases and the Poor

Equality of Care

Neighborhood Disadvantage

SES as a Fundamental Cause of Sickness and Mortality

The Social Demography of Health: Gender, Age, and Race

Chapter 4

Gender:

Factors Contributing to Excess Male Mortality

Biological:

Social-Psychological:

Occupational Competition and Pressure Associated with the Job:

Age:

In Relation to their Health:

Social Gerontologist: studies the way in which the elderly and society adjust to one another.

Race:

Health disparities: differences in the social inequality of health care between races in the United States

Life Expectancy in Relation to Race

Reasons for the differences in life expectancy

Biological:

SES:

Hispanics:

Native Americans:

(American Indians and Native Alaskans)

Asian Americans: