SOCI 200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Health Promotion, Sick Role
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How do families respond to the irrupion of illness into the family dynamics. Health and well-being need to be understood within the context of social, cultural, economic and poliical environments: paricularly health as a cultural and moral process. Health problems and their efects on families: systemic view = social support system. Need to create health promoion strategies that target macro-level factors: beyond vicim-blaming epidemiology . Need to adopt a life course perspecive in the development of policy: illness impact diferently in diferent stages of life. Fff chapter 10: health as a family mater . How to look at the individual and communal within the family. Us = health and well-being s a personal issue. Dale morris: garage to smoke, hide smoking from kids. Parents want to be healthier for their children. World around = full of hazards and uncertain future. Father"s smoking: horrible, discussing habit and medical need (sick role) to deal with s tress.
