PSYC 3110 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Poverty Reduction, Ozone Depletion, Overfishing
21 Apr 2017
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The health onion: level 4: general socio-economic, cultural and environmental conditions, level 3: living and working conditions, level2: social and community influences, level 1: individual lifestyle, core: age, sex, and hereditary factors. If the macrosocial environment is good/right, then you can have agency to eat well and exercise health. If it is not enabling, you have decreased agency in what you can do to be healthy. Interconnectedness of global economy: when drugs are developed in a country, they can rapidly be available to other countries, economic factors create context for astounding range of human phenomena (health, illness, healthcare) Impact of financial crisis ie. 2008 recession: global debt. Increasing longevity: current life expectancy in canada: 79 (men) + 83 (women, every year, life expectancy on avg. increases by 3 mos. Implications for health psychologists: change in profile of disease prevalence, sustainability of health care system. Children not in private school: avg. life expectancy = 51.
