HLTHAGE 1AA3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Royal Institute Of Technology, Staple Food, Pharmaceutical Industry
12 Oct 2017
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Choices (apple implies eating healthy, eat right) What leads to good or bad health. All added together= dominant perception of health, illness best solved by biomedical sector. Health is not simply a biological concept; personal, cultural, political, economic factors all. Health studies, as a discipline seeks to understand how these concepts are conceived. We are also concerned with how social factors affect our health. Menopause- treated it as a sickness, and now believe needs to be treated with. Addressing questions about understanding health and illness and how they play out in. Not health sciences- health from social perspective. Health studies approach to health their life, social location, a person"s ability to meet their social needs. Person"s well being in broader sense, physical component but how a person deals with. Health is social" not individual - relational sense. Who(world health organization) definition of health is not merely the absence of.
