DALYs
DALYs started being used at around this time period
When is the 1990s?
This concept describes how social conditions become biologically expressed in the body.
What is embodiment?
This approach focuses on how stress and social relationships affect biological health.
What is the pychosocial approach?
This related concept refers to harm caused by social systems like inequality and poverty
What is structural violence?
a term that describes when social or personal issues become defined as medical problems
What is medicalization?
This theory attempts to explain how people biologically embody their social and ecological context, creating population health inequities
What is ecosocial theory?
This term describes complex, interconnected causes of disease rather than a single cause.
What is the web of causation?
This concept describes how power structures shape lived experiences of illness and suffering.
What is social suffering?
an example of a socially constructed authority in mental health diagnosis
What is the DSM?
This pair of scholars is commonly associated with analyzing structural violence and social suffering - they are FROM our readings
Who are Paul Farmer and Arthur Kleinman?
This theory examines how economic and social inequalities shape disease distribution.
What is the political economy of disease?
In pandemic narratives, this type of cause often becomes the “lead actor,” overshadowing other factors
What is the viral agent?
metric by which a DALY is composed of
What is Years of Life Lost plus Years Lived with Disability?
This idea refers to how exposure, susceptibility, and resistance interact over time.
This famous critique of the web of causation asks what key element is missing from the model.
What is "Where's the spider?"
These global targets aimed to reduce maternal mortality between 2000–2015
What are the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs)?
a terms used to describe the assumption that numbers are inherently precise and trustworthy
What is numerical mystification?
Social epidemiology became more influential in this period, despite emerging earlier in the 1950s.
When is the late 20th century?
This anthropologist’s concept highlights how suffering is shaped by political and economic forces, challenging DALY-style measurements.
Who is Paul Farmer?
These replaced the MDGs and run from 2015–2030
What are the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)?