HLTC43H3 Lecture : Lecture 3
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What is health? y medical: presence of other risk factors. Highly individualized because between doc and individual . y behavioral/lifestyle: health behavior. Reduce risk factors such as an obese person or someone with high blood pressure. Do this by exercise, diet, stop smoking, stop alcohol Highly individualized because its about what the individual can do to change their satiation. y socio-environmental: concerned with social support. About broader physical social environment in which we live shapes our behavior. Making their lives easier with support such as food resources, find employment. Goes from helping individual to a community. y structural-critical: those structured that we can t see that influences our lives and health. Concerned with larger population and political power, income, employment and how it is distributed. Interpretivism: providing insights into power and how it is exercised, how groups in society are dominant. y critical theory: concerned about injustice and issues of power and finding a solution.
