SOC Lecture 4 - Health

Fundamental Causes of Disease

Social factors such as socioeconomic status and social support; … because they embody access to important resources, affect multiple disease outcomes through multiple mechanisms, and maintain an association with disease even when intervening mechanisms change

Desocialization

a tendency to ask only biological questions about what are in fact biosocial phenomena

Structural Violence

describes social structures that stop individuals, groups, and societies from reaching their full potential; avoidable impairment of fundamental human needs

Flexible Resources

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