NSE 11A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Caving, Medical Model, Chronic Condition
23 Feb 2014
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What is a narrative: story"s told -- phenomenology. At the doctor"s office, it finally came janet, it"s cancer. " i felt the strangest thing ever! I felt relieved that i no longer had to wait for the news and yet crushed at the sound of the c" word. Cancer had never sounded so large, so scary and so uncertain as it did for me that day. I wanted to cry but was too scared to even do that. Chronicity: what is chronic illness, some epidemiology of chronic illness. Mortality: acute illness, disease versus illness, health, risk factors and chronic illness, background/individual, behavioural. Intermediate: community level factors, modifiable risk factors, non-modifiable risk factors. Lifestyle and the idea of choice : prevention of chronic illness. Bio-psycho-social model: word wars: a contradiction in terms. Illness behaviour: sick role, shared decision-making. Quality of life: health-related quality of life: individual and community levels. Illness trajectory model: rolland (1987, corbin (1998)
