Health Sciences 1001A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Flexner Report, Alternative Medicine, Biomedicine

• School: Western University
• Department: Health Sciences
• Course: Health Sciences 1001A/B
• Professor: Jessica Polzer

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Key ideas: biomedicine/ allopathic medicine, medical dominance, public health/ health promotion, ottawa charter for health promotion, the lalonde report, health field concept, who definition of health, population health approach, latrogenesis. Medicine is a social science just as much as it is a natural science. In 1962, there was a strike in saskatchewan where doctors were against providing publicly funded health insurance. The occupation of midwifery was absorbed by the medical field and many claim that this was (cid:373)ai(cid:374) reaso(cid:374) for it"s do(cid:373)i(cid:374)a(cid:374)(cid:272)e (cid:271)e(cid:272)ause (cid:271)a(cid:271)ies are alwa(cid:455)s (cid:271)ei(cid:374)g (cid:271)or(cid:374) Canada has broadened its definitions of health beyond the biomedical definition and there is now an increased focus on health promotion. Ca(cid:374)ada"s (cid:272)o(cid:374)tri(cid:271)utio(cid:374)s to the (cid:272)o(cid:374)(cid:272)eptualizatio(cid:374) of health i(cid:374)(cid:272)lude: lalonde report (1974) Presented a new perspective on the health of canadians. Developed the health field concept which is comprised of 4 components: environment, lifestyle, human biology and health care services/ organization: ottawa charter (1986)