HLTA02H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Health Literacy, Scientific Community, Social Isolation
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Conceptualizing threats to (public) health part 1 (lecture 4) Poverty: a multi-dimensional phenomenon, a complex set of deprivations - more than. Health inequality: actual difference or disparities in health status between people material deprivation. Health inequity: describes differences that are believed to be unfair, and to stem from some injustice. Give those who require it the necessary tool to be equal. Problem is not within the person, society constructed to ignore the differences. What / who determines what constitutes a threat? while obscuring or neglecting others. The definition of health: different model draw attention to different kind of problems, The determinants that are considered: proximal/ distal, biological/ social, etc. The distribution magnitude and severity of the threat: who and how many are. How is all of this framed: by decision-makers, scientists, media, etc. affected, what outcomes, etc. Framing threats to health: science and the media: Scientific community: soundness of theory, quality of research / evidence, processes in.
