LITERATURE REVIEW
Another article to be discussed is titled: The McKeown Thesis: A Historical Controversy and its Enduring Influence. McKeown’s thesis states that advancements in the medical field were not the reason for the population increase in the industrialized world but rather improvements in things such as the standard of living – especially diet and nutritional health which brought about better economic conditions and resulted in an population increase (McKeown, 2002). The objective of this article is to examine the criticism surrounding McKeown’s work and how this in turn has impacted public health research and policy (McKeown, 2002). One criticism against McKeown’s theory is provided by Wrigley and Schofield of the Cambridge Group …show more content…
The objective of this article is to study the differences in dementia rates between black and white individuals aged 70-79 and justify these differences in terms of an individual’s socioeconomic status which includes factors such as, income, financial adequacy, education, literacy, and health related components (Yaffe et al., 2013). The experiment began in 1997 and was conducted for a span of 12 years, it focused on individuals between 70-79 without dementia (Yaffe et al., 2013). There were a total of 2457 participants where 1019 (41.5%) of the participants were black and 1233 (50.2%) were women and the mean age was 73.6 (Yaffe et al., 2013). The results of this experiment show that 449 individuals (18.3%) had dementia and that the rates of dementia were higher in black (20.7%) as opposed to white participants (16.6%) (Yaffe et al., 2013). It is suggested that the black population possess a higher rate of because they have an overall lower socioeconomic status (education, literacy, family income, and financial adequacy) than the white population (Yaffe et al., 2013). This is due to the fact that 24.6% of black individuals did not complete high school and 12.8% possessed an annual family income of less than $10 000 (Yaffe et al., 2013). Another justification for the higher rates of dementia in black individuals is because they possess …show more content…
The objective of this article is to understand how acts of racism are psychopathological and the actions that can be taken to combat this racism? (Thomas, 2014). The article begins with telling individuals that Theodor Adorno’s work The Authoritarian Personality is a work that can help answer the question of what makes the psychology of humans prejudiced? (Thomas, 2014). This is a question that many mental health researchers were asking in the late 1950’s (Thomas, 2014). White and black mental health researchers who were active in the civil rights movement concluded that racism was responsible for the social ills society was experiencing (Thomas, 2014). These claims were only made stronger with the passing of the 1963 Community Mental Health Act which was founded on the notion that there was community-based treatment available for the psychological stress that victims of racism underwent (Thomas, 2014). Moving towards the early 2000’s there is an increase in the medical and psychological explanations for human behaviour and medical developments provided a pathway for the treatment of these behaviours (Thomas, 2014). However critics of this idea state that by classifying racism as an abnormal behaviour that can be treated through psychological means weakens the fact of the severity of racism and its effects because the symptoms of racism are being targeted instead of its causes (Thomas,
Another article to be discussed is titled: The McKeown Thesis: A Historical Controversy and its Enduring Influence. McKeown’s thesis states that advancements in the medical field were not the reason for the population increase in the industrialized world but rather improvements in things such as the standard of living – especially diet and nutritional health which brought about better economic conditions and resulted in an population increase (McKeown, 2002). The objective of this article is to examine the criticism surrounding McKeown’s work and how this in turn has impacted public health research and policy (McKeown, 2002). One criticism against McKeown’s theory is provided by Wrigley and Schofield of the Cambridge Group …show more content…
The objective of this article is to study the differences in dementia rates between black and white individuals aged 70-79 and justify these differences in terms of an individual’s socioeconomic status which includes factors such as, income, financial adequacy, education, literacy, and health related components (Yaffe et al., 2013). The experiment began in 1997 and was conducted for a span of 12 years, it focused on individuals between 70-79 without dementia (Yaffe et al., 2013). There were a total of 2457 participants where 1019 (41.5%) of the participants were black and 1233 (50.2%) were women and the mean age was 73.6 (Yaffe et al., 2013). The results of this experiment show that 449 individuals (18.3%) had dementia and that the rates of dementia were higher in black (20.7%) as opposed to white participants (16.6%) (Yaffe et al., 2013). It is suggested that the black population possess a higher rate of because they have an overall lower socioeconomic status (education, literacy, family income, and financial adequacy) than the white population (Yaffe et al., 2013). This is due to the fact that 24.6% of black individuals did not complete high school and 12.8% possessed an annual family income of less than $10 000 (Yaffe et al., 2013). Another justification for the higher rates of dementia in black individuals is because they possess …show more content…
The objective of this article is to understand how acts of racism are psychopathological and the actions that can be taken to combat this racism? (Thomas, 2014). The article begins with telling individuals that Theodor Adorno’s work The Authoritarian Personality is a work that can help answer the question of what makes the psychology of humans prejudiced? (Thomas, 2014). This is a question that many mental health researchers were asking in the late 1950’s (Thomas, 2014). White and black mental health researchers who were active in the civil rights movement concluded that racism was responsible for the social ills society was experiencing (Thomas, 2014). These claims were only made stronger with the passing of the 1963 Community Mental Health Act which was founded on the notion that there was community-based treatment available for the psychological stress that victims of racism underwent (Thomas, 2014). Moving towards the early 2000’s there is an increase in the medical and psychological explanations for human behaviour and medical developments provided a pathway for the treatment of these behaviours (Thomas, 2014). However critics of this idea state that by classifying racism as an abnormal behaviour that can be treated through psychological means weakens the fact of the severity of racism and its effects because the symptoms of racism are being targeted instead of its causes (Thomas,