HLTC05H3 Lecture Notes - Wses, Cortisol, Warren Buffett
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Lecture: direct cultural factors that affect health as well as how structures of society are determinants of health, biomedicine hierarchy in western medicine, the importance of context= social, cultural, economic, physical. All factors co-occur: proximate social factors= direct behavioural determinants of health, distal social factors= macroeconomic contexts, understanding how culturogenic stress can affect health through transnational spaces. Overall society"s perspective on healthcare: biomedicine has become a part of our daily living and the understanding that our health is in our own hands. Healthism= health is in the hands of the individual and is an outcome from the lifestyle behaviours (risks) that the individual takes. Neoliberalism= blaming the individual for lack of responsibility rather than looking at macroeconomic entities that apply to one"s health. Medical technological advances influence how disease is looked at and treated: patterns of inequality are reinforced with the introduction of advanced medical technologies within a population.
