GPHY 101 Lecture Notes - World Health Organization, Autism Spectrum, Health Geography

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Geography
• Course: GPHY 101
• Professor: Anne M C Godlewska

Document Summary

Health is a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity . (world health organization) Compared across time and space but complicated. Impairment (e. g. hearing or visual) usually refers to restricted physical functioning of some kind. Stigma, stereotypes like treating you like a child. Spatial: environment, barriers to access (stairs, auto doors, ramps) Some don"t see it as a disease problem is how society treats them. Autism needs to be treated if you call it a disease (think critically abut concepts we use!!: concepts mean different things in different places at different times. Immigrants are health when they arrive but it deteriorates. Lack of sense of place and belonging can decrease health (stress) Conclusions: place matters for, but it doesn"t determine our health, places themselves are not usually intrinsically healthy or unhealthy, power may not be distributed equally, but we are rarely powerless to improve our health, or.