HSCI 319W Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Health Promotion, Master Sergeant, Consequentialism

• School: Simon Fraser University
• Department: Health Sciences
• Course: HSCI 319W
• Professor: Jeremy Snyder

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Include actions, choices and lifestyle: choice = conscious decision, action = passive, lifestyle = character traits, longer-term habits (pattern of behavior - > addiction, heavy exercise, etc. : changing actions tend to be less controversial than changing people (desires, preferences) which can be less controversial than changing an entire lifestyle (cid:858)nudges(cid:859) -> unconscious/self-conscious thoughts (change what behavior is channeled towards) Bi-directionality of change: change preferences can change behavior, e(cid:454). Maki(cid:374)g d(cid:396)i(cid:374)ki(cid:374)g see(cid:373) (cid:858)u(cid:374)(cid:272)ool(cid:859: changing behavior can change preferences, change what you do to what you want, ex. Social media = internalize preferences that people have. Worry: victim blaming: promoting behavior change implies that individual behavior is responsible for ill health. Response: victim blaming: acknowledge dangers -> social determinants of health -> don(cid:859)t o(cid:374)l(cid:455) blame victim. Concern: if gov. uses same methods as companies -> is. Individuals are free to make health-related choices and are responsible for the outcome of it but social + environmental factors.