1 Ch. 21. Health and Medicine Medical Sociology

Two states comparison 2

3 Today’s coming attractions !!  How does culture shape your health?  What are you most likely to die from?  How long will you live?  What is the greatest preventable cause of death?

4 How does the culture shape your health?  Social inequality  Technology

5 What are you most likely to die from?  Heart disease  Cancer  Stroke

6 Are you in a high risk health group?  Men vs women?  Young white affluent females?  Anorexia  Deaths among young people:  African American males Homicide  Other young people Accidents

7 How long will you live?  76.9 years

8 What is the greatest preventable cause of death?  Smoking  Effects: Physically and psychologically addictive Frequent minor illnesses Increased prenatal death Smoking related deaths

9 Are you between 15 and 25 years old?  You are in the highest risk group for sexually transmitted diseases.  2/3 of STI’s are in people under 25 years old.

10 HPV – Human papillomavirus  HPV (cause of genital warts) is present in 1 in 5 Americans over 12 years old and in 1/3 of college women!  Most common in people under 25 years old.  40 million in the U.S. are infected  “Most sexually active people will get HPV” – without knowing it.

11 HPV – Human papillomavirus (cont.)  About 50 types of HPV can cause genital infections.  Treated, but not cured  Most infections go away by themselves  Some types cause genital warts cause cervical cancer. Vaccine available – protects against 90% of genital warts and 70% of cervical cancers

12 Genital herpes  Infects 1 in 5 adults (Now 1 in 4)  50 Million U.S. adults  70% of people who got herpes got it from someone with no symptoms.

13 Chlamydia  Most common infectious disease in US.  3-5 million infected each year

14 Big ideas you can use!!  Perhaps 1 in 3 people have or will get a sexually transmitted disease.  Most do not know they have it.  Some STD,s make others easier to catch. Eg. Chlamydia, gonorrhea, and herpes makes HIV easier to get.  Get tested before going to bed.

15 Aids worldwide  Highest number of cases?  Sub-Saharan Africa  Most rapidly rising rate?  Thailand

16 High risk behaviors  IV drug use  Using drugs that impair judgment  Anal sex

17 Big ideas you can use!!  Do not smoke  Use condoms  Remember; Most people with sexually transmitted diseases have no symptoms.  Assume your partner may have an infection until tested.

18 Medical ethics  Euthanasia Assisting in the death of a person suffering from a terminal illness.

19 Human genetics research  Stop disease before it develops  Information about their future medical condition  Health profile of a future child.

20 Tomorrow’s coming attractions!!  World population changes  Ways of measuring population  Age-sex pyramids (Not in Egypt)  Ideas about population change