1. HEALTH, DISABILITY & AGING Introduction to Sociology Adam Isaiah Green Winter 2013

2. Rudolph Virchow (1821-1902)

3. MEDICAL SOCIOLOGY The study of medicine, health and illness from the perspective of “the social”: 1) The study of the health industry, including the practice of medicine and the implementation of health insurance 2) The social roots of health, disease, and mental illness

4. STRESS PROCESS MODEL

5. RATES OF MORTALITY AMONG WORKING AGE MEN CORRELATED WITH INCOME BELONGING TO THE LESS WELL OFF HALF OF HOUSEHOLDS (1990s)

6. HEALTH & CLASS STATUS http://www.nytimes.com/2005/05/16/nation al/class/HEALTH-FINAL.htmlhttp://www.nytimes.com/2005/05/16/nation al/class/HEALTH-FINAL.html

7. The only county in Nova Scotia where the incidence of cancer for both women and men is significantly higher than the provincial average is Cape Breton County, the 5 th poorest of 18 counties in Nova Scotia and the site of the Sydney Tar Ponds. Nova Scotia has the second highest cancer death rate and the second lowest median provincial income. Deaths per 100,000 people due to cancer, and median family income in hundreds of dollars, Canadian provinces, 2003 Class and Exposure to Environmental Risk: Nova Scotia Cancer rate Median income

8. People with HIV/AIDS, 2009 (adult prevalence in parentheses) Total: 33.3 million (0.8%) Western and Central Europe 820,000 (0.2%) North Africa & Middle East 460,000 (0.2%) Sub-Saharan Africa 22.5 million (5.0%) Eastern Europe & Central Asia 1.4 million (0.8%) South & South-East Asia 4.1 million (0.3%) Oceania 57,000 (0.3%) North America 1.5 million (0.5%) Caribbean 240,000 (1.0%) South & Central America 2.0 million (0.6%) East Asia 770,000 (0.1%)

9. 32 35 38 41 44 47 50 53 56 59 62 65 68 71 74 77 80 83 86 89 Europe 1600 Lesotho 2009 India 2009 China 2009 Russia 2009 USA 2009 Japan 2009 Canada 2009 Canada 2050 Canada 1867 Life Expectancy, Selected Countries and Years

10. Class, Illness and Death  Human-environmental factors, such as industrial pollution  Lifestyle factors, such as smoking cigarettes, excessive use of alcohol and drugs, poor diet, lack of exercise, and social isolation.  Factors related to public health system (government-run programs that ensure clean drinking water, sewage and sanitation services, inoculation against infectious diseases, etc.) and healthcare system (clinics, hospitals and other facilities)

11. Selected Social Causes and Consequences of Height in Human Populations Height Proximate social causes diet disease work intensity Basic social causes income inequality public health personal hygiene quality of environment Social consequences life expectancy health cognitive development personality

12. HEIGHT AND RELATIONSHIPS

13. Peter Paul Rubens Cimone and Efigenia (1617)

14. Percent of Adults Who are Overweight, Selected Countries, 2007 Percent 1.0% increase, 2001-07 2.3% increase, 2001-07 Overweight adults have a body mass index (BMI) of 25 or higher (BMI = weight in kilograms divided by the square of height in metres).

15. Percent of Canadian Adults Who are Obese, by Province, 2004 Obese adults have a body mass index (BMI) of 30 or higher (BMI = weight in kilograms divided by the square of height in metres).

16. Height, Weight and Social Status  On average, high family income results in good diet; good diet increases stature;  tall people live longer, earn more, and reach the top of their profession more quickly than short people;  overweight women complete fewer months of formal education, earn less, and are less likely to marry than women who are not overweight (overweight men are less likely to marry)

17. Important Terms  impaired = deficient in physical or mental capacity compared to the norms of society  disabled = incapable of performing within the range of “normal” human activity  ablism = prejudice and discrimination against the disabled

18. Erectile Dysfunction?

19. Societal Responses to Disability  Rehabilitation involves curing disabilities through medical and technological intervention; trying to improve the lives of the disabled by means of care, training, and education; and integrating the disabled into "normal" society.  Elimination involves killing the disabled or sterilizing them and preventing them from having offspring.  Normalization involves disabled people asserting their autonomy and the "dignity of difference."

20. DEAF A DISABILITY?! YOUTUBE: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X5x1BIdM 8PQ&feature=related