Health Sciences 1001A/B Lecture : What is Health? Lecture

• School: Western University
• Department: Health Sciences
• Course: Health Sciences 1001A/B
• Professor: Shauna Burke

Document Summary

Of cial de nitions of health: de nitions of doctors, health professionals, government institutions, of cial de nitions of health are more popular perceptions of health, opposite of of cial de nitions: lay beliefs, two kinds of de nitions: positive and negative, negative vs. What are your main sources of information about health: media, health professionals. Antonovsky s sense of coherence : measures the extent to which individuals see the world as, comprehensible, manageable, meaningful. ***beliefs in health vary from place to place as well as different times in history*** Therefore, health is a relative quality - relative that is to the surroundings and circumstances in which people nd themselves. Environmental factors that affect how we view health: if you are around disease alot, then you will start to see disease as a normal thing, i. e. if you are close to the water, water has a calming effect. Diabetes mellitus: dramatic increase in cancer, dramatic decrease in in uenza/pneumonia.