HLTB22H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Cardiovascular Disease, Homeostasis, Inductive Reasoning
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Biological determinant is much more directly linked to the cause of health malfunction. Social determinants effects the biological determinants and in turn effect health (interconnection) The life of a car depends on 4 elements (use car to compare a body: design genes, accidents external agency, maintenance internal agency (homeostasis) Internal agency (most critical: homeodynamics: reshaping or internal being through many processes, connotes an appropriate and constant interplay of host and environment, environmental interfacing with healthy body has 2 primary expressions: If health is below 30, you have ill health and wellbeing: unfortunately, funds are put into the 30% of poor health, not into health promotion, scientific method, a systematic logical approach to gathering information and reaching conclusions, 1. Make observations and ask questions about them: 2. Make a testable hypothesis that provides explanation about observations and answers to questions: 3. Make predictions and test it in experiments with control and experimental groups: 4.
