HLTB15H3 Lecture Notes - Longitudinal Study, Empiricism, Auguste Comte
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Diseases are generated by specific etiological agents. Leads to changes in the body"s structure and function. Most targeted with 20s, 30s, and early 40s. Body and mine are separate; can interact, but are not in the same space. 2. limited focus on body and technology ignores personal and social contexts (well-being is affected by social contexts: unable to define a cause. Assumptions: people are influenced by personal contexts and choice, people interact among the social and physical contexts, model is used in rehabilitation programmes. Considered to be a broad working model. Distinguish between medical concept of disease and the subjective feelings of the disease. Can have disease w/ biomedical indicators without feeling sick. Can feel ill without biomedical indicators indicating it to be a disease. 60+ put more health focus on being mobile. Longitudinal study in britain: women link energy and vitality to household tasks, men linked it to participation in sports.
