HSS 1101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Health Promotion
24 Feb 2016
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Convenional approach to health, risk factor approach: interacion between geneic suscepibility/ resilience and behaviour. Evidence: educaion, income, and relaive social posiion are more predicive of health. Smoking, body mass index and physical acivity level have a very small to no efect on health inequaliies. Studies in smoking and lung cancer: socioeconomic inluence; incidence of most diseases is higher among people with lower incomes. Typically health promoion aciviies broaden gap between health status of richest, most educated and poorest, least educated. Richer people usually have more resources for making lifestyle modiicaions than poorer people. Posiive efects from lifestyle changes are greatest for people already living in favoured economic and social circumstances. Focusing on peoples choices inclines our eforts toward informaional and educaional strategies-approaches that are notoriously inefecive". Lifestyle factors actually have remarkably litle explanatory power: ex; heart disease and salt and fat.
