1. Define social epidemiology in two paragraphs or less.
2. Using the resources on the Black Belt:
7 scarring facts, figures about America’s Black Belt Region people
http://www.hhpronline.org/articles/2019/11/21/soil-to-struggle-a-qualitative-study-of-health-in-alabamas-black-belt
Patterns Of Death In The South Still Show The Outlines Of Slavery
a. Define and explain the existence of the Black Belt.
b. Describe either Krieger’s Eco-social theory or Elder’s Lifecourse Perspective and explain how it might be used to understand the social epidemiologic process at work here; and
c. What is one health issue that can be attributed to the sociohistoric influence of the BB and why?
d. Include one potential, evidence-based intervention that could be used to reduce the incidence of a the health issue you described above.