HLTB15H3 Lecture : Social Factors, Health and Illness

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13 Feb 2012
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Social factors and health: social class: arranging people into hierarchies based on economic status (laborers vs. aggreagation of labor, level of education, wealth/money, size of home, number of owned cars. classifying socio-economic factors is not as clear-cut (due to other factors such. Coping: how to deal with social factors of stress, how we react to things determines how we deal with stress, psychosocial stress: mediating factors: crisis theory: the way to cope with stress is to go back to the equilibrium/homeostasis state. based on the cognitive-appraisal model of coping: the way someone deals with stress depends on the amount of resources an individual has: self-efficacy: the extent to which people have control of their lives, labelling and social stigma: depersonalisation: takes away a person s personality and makes it hard for individuals to deal with stresses. Social interactionism and symbolic interactionism: social interactionism: anything that explains influences and interactions of different factors on health outcomes.

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