HSS 2321 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Junk Food, Health Promotion, Social Protection
13 Jan 2017
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A model of health that emphasizes the linkages and relationships among multiple factors (or determinants) affecting health. The ecological model emphasizes the importance of the social and physical environments that strongly shape patterns of disease and injury as well as our responses to them over the entire life cycle: the cycle starts with. Intrapersonal: your own activity, your diet, knowledge about nutrition, exercise, income, genetics, self-esteem, addictive personality (physical/mental health issues) interpersonal. If family members are obese, it could influence you, Eating out to build connections, specific jobs (work colleagues), if no one around you is supportive then you wont want to lose weight (social support); isolation institutional: Nutritional labelling, the food found in cafeteria (non-nutritious school lunch programs), social isolation (being too obese to participate in a physical education program) Community factors: culture and tradition: cultural foods, perception of thinness and fat,
