SOCS-185N Week 6 Discussion: Social Institutions and Health

SOCS-185N Week 6 Discussion: Social Institutions and Health Initial Post Instructions For this discussion we will consider if the social world can be bad for your health and/or if social instituti ons can improve your health. For the initial post, examine ways that some of the social institutions studied this week (the family, the educational system, or religions) might affect the health of the people in the institution. Address the following: What are some effects of family life on health? How might the educational system in the United States affect the health of American children? How might health outcomes … affected by religious practices of members of varying religions in the United States? Are there other behaviors, outside of formal religious practice or formal religious ceremonial observances, such as dietary requirements or other behavioral requirements of members of religious institutions in the United States that might affect their health, either directly or indirectly? Are there behaviors, practices, or experiences of specific demographic groups in the United States that positively or negatively affect their health?