HLSC111 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: George Clooney, Social Forces, Operant Conditioning
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Models of health: biomedical model, psychosocial model, new public health model. What does it mean when we say a person is. Health in simple terms: presence or absence of disease and medically measured risk factors. A broader and more widely accepted view is: health is influenced by a complex interaction of biological, psychological and social factors. 21st century health threats in developed nations related to lifestyle not pathogens. Fails to acknowledge broader psychological, sociological, political, economic and environmental factors that affect health. Directs resources to cure rather than prevention, promotion or early intervention. He was bought into the emergency by a colleague who recognized that his symptoms were worse than what he was reporting. It is a whole-of-life and includes the cyclical concept of life-death-life. This definition maintains that health and illness result from an interplay of: biological, psychological, social forces. Attempts to address the broader influences on health: social, cultural, environmental, economic factors.
