SOC 104 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: World Health Organization, Preventive Healthcare, Universal Health Care
30 Nov 2018
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Healthcare as a major social institution in canada: social institution: a set of organized beliefs and rules that establishes how a society will attempt to meet its basic social needs. We have studied family and education as social institutions: healthcare in canada, universal healthcare system, central to canadian society, hearts + minds. World health organization: health is a state of complete physical, mental and social well being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity (who constitution). The extent to which an individual or a group is able to realize aspirations and satisfy needs, and to change or cope with the environment. Health is a resource for everyday life, not the objective of living; it is a positive concept, emphasizing social and personal resources as well as physical capabilities (health. "definition of terms and concepts applicable to clinical preventive medicine", j common health,
