HPSC1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Dental Caries, Qualitative Variation, Menopause
9 Jun 2018
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Lecture 13: Normality, disease, disability
What is normal?
- Beig oal = ofoig to a o
- The norm can be:
1. The typical (what occurs most usually)
2. The average (which may or may not exist)
3. The ideal (aspirational e.g. normal weight)
- Generally, concepts of normality are dependent on different types of judgements or
measurements
- These assessments can either be: quantitative, qualitative or normative
Quantitative and normative evaluations
- Normative evaluations are based on values that may or may not be conscious
- Socially contingent and reflect factors such as cultural norms, economic conditions,
societal values
- akig oal o oalisig ofte oies oth uatitatie ad normative
evaluations
Problems with statistical norms
- If a majority of people have a condition (tooth decay) does that mean it is not a disease?
- Whats the eleat populatio?
- All humans? All women? All non-pregnant women? All pre-menopausal women?
The opposite of normal
- 2 distinct types of implications
1. Quantitative variation: the anomalous or unusual
2. Qualitative variation: the abnormal, or that which is against the norm
- The abnormal could include:
Disease, impairment and disability
Health, enhancement and natural advantage
Approaches to disease
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