HLTA03H3 Lecture 8: HLTA03 Week 08 Lecture Notes

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Writing your thesis for assignment 2: reading strategically. Background: key points related to my topic/course topics: What else is involved? (i. e. social determinants of health) What does health mean in aboriginal context: the aboriginal wellness model: no singular definition but some common characterisitics . The first nations concept of health encompasses more than physiology and is a complex, dynamic process that includes social relations, land and cultural identity. Draws from a more comprehensive understanding of the individual and not just the healer/patient relationship and is often neglected in the formalized biomedical environment health is not simply an absence od disease. Wellness involves the physical, emotional, mental and spiritual aspects of a person and always in connection to hid/her own family and community. Indigenous ideologies of health is a holistic perspective, and health is also experienced over the life course. Health is founded on wholeness, interconnections, an harmony, which is in keeping with the aboriginal window.

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