Health Sciences 1002A/B Lecture Notes - Henry Raeburn, Iatrogenesis, Global Health
6 Dec 2012
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Changing your lifestyle as a way to improve your health are historically contingent. Research shows that social factors are better predictors of health than medical ones, especially on groups of people. Health are distributed due to social factors and economical factors, not randomly. Global health trends show how lifestyles are distributed due to social factors. People in more wealthy countries live longer than those who live in poverty stricken countries. Historically in canada, the infant mortality rate has sharply been declining over the last century. Social perspectives tend to be more in uential. Individual perspectives tend to be talked about more. In a social system, in order to change the social issues, the resolution is to change the social conditions and promote health for entire groups and populations. Depends on our educational backgrounds and our personal experiences. There are always more than 2 perspectives and 2 sides to the story. Sociological way of thinking recognizes: limitations and dynamic behaviors.
