SOCA03Y3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: World Health Organization, Typical Male, Symbolic Interactionism
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"a state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity" (world health organization, 2008) Health/ illness not fixed binary opposites; self fulfilling prophecies. Bipower (foucault); need to responsive to individual patient needs. People have more access to information and figure things out on their own. Social determinants of health ( structural factors that influence health) Examples: income, education, health services, working conditions, housing, gender, race, disability. Grandmother had depression which she did not recover from. 70% of are experienced to have depression at some point in their life and sometimes are misdiagnosed. Men and women are different to the cellular level. 1993 nih revitalization act mandated minorities and women were incorporated in clinical trials. Found the remarkable differences between men and women. We aren"t taking what we have learned and applying it in clinical care. Heart disease: #1 killer of women in the u. s. Linda"s symptoms continued and they found clues.
