PSYC 3125 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Health Promotion, Occupational Safety And Health, Acute Radiation Syndrome
19 Dec 2017
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Big sugar - the sugar foundation payed harvard scientists to look into heart disease and concentrate on fat rather than pointing to sugar as one of the causes of heart disease. The de nition of health and wellness has changed over time (from being sick meaning only in hospital to being able to live with illness at home) Africville- a black ghetto community that the canadian government tried to ignore, and was not able to access necessary health services. In rio, 22% of the rio population live in favelas (slums), that are run by gangs and such, however, at the olympics we only focus on the beaches. While individuals in the favelas might be healthy, the community as a whole is not. In the pre-science era, there was much superstition surrounding health and disease. Nightingale- nurse for the war: more soldiers died of unhygenic circumstances (illnesses and disease) than died from the.
