SOC243H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Health Promotion, Psychopathy, Intersectionality
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Regulatory self-care: health maintenance and health promotion activities. Preventive self care: illness avoidance and risk reduction practices. Illness behaviors: related to the process of defining, interpreting and otherwise responding to symptoms and deciding what actions to take. Health behaviors: undertaken for purpose of maintaining or enhancing health, or prevention of illness, or achieving positive body image. Examples of health-related behaviors: diet, smoking, drinking; creates a relationship with stress and mental health. More stress is likely to correalate to worse mental health. Chronic stress has different effects on black and white people. A lifetime where one experience chronic stress throughout their lives, they are more likely to experience poor health behavior. Considering illness behaviours over time and in interpersonal and institutional context. The network episode model: interpersonal and institutional context- self-care, shared- care and pathways to formal care. Puts illness into interpersonal context and specifies pathways to formal care, i. e. psychopathy, chinese medicine, seeing family doctor.
