Sociology › Section S · Health and medicine › Topic S.2
Global health
Where you are born still shapes how long you are likely to live and what is most likely to kill you. Global health looks at those patterns across countries and asks which social conditions produce them.
In this topic
- A birthplace lottery
- Social epidemiology
- Grouping the world's countries
- The epidemiological transition
- Health in high-income countries
- Health in low-income countries
- Water, sanitation and health workers
- Worked example: reading child mortality figures
- Worked example: a double burden in one city
- From the MDGs to the SDGs
- Common mistakes to avoid
- Key takeaways
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