- After reading chapters 3, 4, & 5 in Cockerham and listening to the podcast lectures, discuss your perception of how three different demographics impact your health. (These demographics can effect your health in a positive or negative way.) This posting should be at least 400 words.
- Rubric: Content is appropriate to the assignment (15). Posting follows proper APA format and is without spelling errors (5). {Guidelines and rubric from the syllabus still apply to your raw score.
Lecturette: Topic 3
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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:
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Social Stress
Chapter 5
Stress: difficulties experienced by an individual as a result of perceived challenges. It’s a heightened mind-body reaction to stimuli inducing fear or anxiety in the individual.
Stress Adaptation
Physiological Responses to Stress
Fight or Flight Response
Social Factors and Stress
1. Life Events
2. Chronic Strains
3. Extreme Situations
Stress and the Social Group
Stress and Socioeconomic Status