What is a health disparity

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1. (a) Define medical sociology.

(b) Explain the different areas that this field covers corresponding to the different levels of analysis (micro, meso, and macro).

2. While our bodies do become ill, the meaning society attaches to this process and outcome can vary. Your text highlights three constructivists' views regarding this variable: The cultural meaning of illness, the social construction of illness, and the social construction of medical knowledge.

(a) Provide a summary for each.

(b) provide an example for each.

3. Obesity and depression are highlighted in this chapter as having a relationship to high income nations and inequality.

(a) Explain these relationships.

(b) What sorts of health concerns are found in low income nations? Why?

4. (a) Explain what a "health disparity" is.

(b) Race, Gender, and Income are often thought of as indicators of health disparities. Explain why for each.

5. Often in society, there are occasions where people view difference as deficiency regardless of the implications or fairness.

(a) Define 'disability' and compare this to 'impairment'.

(b) Then, apply this view of difference as deficiency to disability using the concept of stigmatization.

6. (a) Compare and contrast how a functionalist versus a conflict theorist would study population and urbanization issues.

7. Major indicators of demography are fertility rates and mortality rates.

(a) Explain these.

(b) What is the relation between these concepts and the earth's 'carrying capacity'. Be specific.

8. Your text lists three reasons why the Malthusian theory has not come to fruition. Identify these reasons.

9. Define Gentrification. Why would this upset individuals living in low income neighborhoods?

10. Use world systems theory/analysis to explain the inequality of international environmental policies.

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