HLTHAGE 1AA3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Flexner Report, Royal College Of Surgeons In Ireland, Allopathic Medicine
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Kleinman"s figure 3 discussions: popular sector, professional sector, and folk. Health care systems are socially and culturally connected. Universal health care is part of our social reality as canadians. The social reality of universal health care an ingrained value in our society: the external interpersonal environment we are situated in (norms, It becomes our social reality on two levels communication with others: our own internal intra psychic space. Kleinman"s two diagrams figure #3 on page 8 of the courseware and figure. #2 on page 5 of the courseware become the focus of our discussion. Figure #3 local health care system: internal structure. Three sectors: popular, professional and folk: popular sector. Participants are lay persons and non professionals, non specialists. Other choices available, namely folk and professional practitioners. Illness is first defined here and health care activities are initiated here two sectors anchored in the cognitive and value orientations of the popular culture.