Chat with us, powered by LiveChat 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 demo - Writingforyou

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 demo

  1. 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.
  2. 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