HLTH 1001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Palliative Care, Chronic Condition, Terminal Illness
12 Apr 2018
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L e c t u r e 3 j a n u a r y 1 5 2 0 1 8. Defining disease, illness, sickness sociological perspective: disease: based on a medical diagnosis which locates a problem in specific organs or body systems, and is treated through biomedical treatments. Risk factors: alcohol, blood glucose, blood pressure, cholesterol, physical inactivity, tobacco, overweight/obesity, unhealthy diet. Depression: at least 350 million people live with depression, depression often starts at a young age and affects women, almost 1 million people take their own lives each year. Symptoms: low energy loss of interest: change in appetite, persistent sadness, low energy and difficulty functioning normally. Factors impacting rate of disability globally: environmental, social, political, and economic influences (poverty, malnutrition, inaccessibility) Infectious (hiv/aids, tb, malaria) and non- communicable diseases (diabetes, heart disease, stroke, cancer, mental health disorders: prevalence of disability, one in seven canadians aged 15 years or older reported disability.
