IDSB04H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: World-Systems Theory, Human Development Index, Modernization Theory
26 Nov 2012
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Idsb04 tuesday september 21st, 2010 - lecture 2. 133: views health at an individual personal level, health is conceptualized as the absence of disease rather than the overall well-being, mostly curative, but not exclusive. Vaccines etc: does cover certain behavioural determinants, mainstream approach to health, appeal stems from technological advances from the 1900"s. 134: health and illness is a function of individual or household actions and beliefs. Or a reward for healthy living/outcome of poor lifestyle choices: focus is on regulation that would change behaviours or changing of personal conduct and cultural attitudes. 134: considers political, social, cultural, and economic contexts in which disease and illness raise. Table 4-3: understanding the causal and treatments go hand in hand. Think in multiple layers and multiple thinks: see the long table in chapter 4. How has the economy progressed: rudolf virchow. He understood that you couldn"t not address diseases at the cellular level. Social, economic etc: latin american social medicine.
