HLTA02H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Social Medicine, Victim Blaming, Cardiovascular Disease
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Hlta02 lecture 3: biomedical system, our healthcare system is designed from this approach. If you do not have an illness or disease, you are healthy: behavioral system: victim blaming. Individuals do not make choices based on their preference, they make it based on their circumstance. In terms of stress, social support, etc. ? directly links individuals to society: societal: is not just national, can be global: ex: migration. Is inequality making us sick: place determines what kind of physical or chemical agents you are exposred to. Environmetal factors play a role oil: tobacco, liquour and fast food are easy to find.
