FNF 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Birth Weight, 6 Years, Health Canada

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Family Studies
• Course: FNF 100
• Professor: Dan Mahoney

Document Summary

Move to a more complex understanding of health, well-being, including acute and chronic illness. Health is a complete state of physical, mental and social well-being, and not merely the absence of disease and infirmity. Move away from focusing only on biomedical perspective of health. One of the major findings within the health disparities literature over the past 15 years is that disparities exist over a vast array of health and disease outcomes, including risk factors and behaviours. Not just isolated here and there, it is everywhere. Different groups of people experiencing the same health care all in different ways. Who does it advantage and why: opens doors, getting into ivy league schools, opportunities, advantages people that are wealthy. Why as health professionals should we care: when they see the opportunity given to a only small sector of society, some people will. Differences that occur by gender, race and ethnicity, education level, income level, disability, geographic location and/or sexual orientation.