Unit 6 - In Sickness and In Wealth

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Social determinants of health

Education

Higher the education you have the more high income you would have over the years

Cost of college has increased over the years

Education offers a way to move up the wealth gradient

Social Class

Higher status less stress, better immune function

Social health gradients are more directed towards the lower class, excess death plays a role, because it goes based of the different time periods of deaths, and expect number of deaths in that time period

Poverty can have life long consequences

Environment

Physical work conditions is important for socialeconimc

Life expectancy is lower due to the lack of resources

More fast food restaurants in low income areas

Unemployment

Suborinate would have more health issues than a domiant due to stress

Unemployed could cause mental health issues such as feeling depressed, anxious, an could develop low self-esteem

Levels of cortisol relates to this, because stress causes severe health issues

the grade of employment the greater of heart disease or major cause of death

Race

Maditude of inequality changes over time, it could get worse and worse which could possibly make it better

Excess death on African Americans are over 83,000 deaths per year

Racial discrimination could be a added stressor which would cause hypertension

African Americans have higher rates of chronic diseases than non colored people

African American social health outcomes are going to be worse than non colered people