HLTHAGE 1CC3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Mental Disorder, Subculture, Determinant
5 Jun 2019
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Introducing culture: culture: collective way of doing something/ understanding transmitted from one group. March 25 - 27 2019 member to another. Sub cultural norms: not a simple variable, connection with race and ethnicity but goes much deeper than that, tied to shared occupied space, subculture , professional cultures, any one person belongs to many cultures at once, ex. Healthcare workers belong to a culture: culture among nurses/physicians, ex. Patients possess culture: when sick think about a meeting of many cultures, different beliefs, ideas etc. comes to the table. How does cultures act as a social determinant of mental health: determinant things outside the individual that have an impact on how they experience things like health & illness, ex. How people experience and express mental distress and how we: how does culture shape how we feel and act and how we. Individual wishes might matter less than what"s good for the group: matter of extent not absolute difference.
