Health Sciences 1002A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Social Medicine, Biomedical Model, Germ Theory Of Disease
22 Oct 2016
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Key themes: lifestyle factors, biomedical model, cartesian dualism, social model of health/ social determinants of health, public health/ social medicine, epidemiology, negative vs. Positive definitions of health: disease vs. illness, health indicators. Lifestyle is a dominant discourse on health (way of thinking about health) in north. Lifestyle is often the reason given for good or poor health. A social perspective on health focuses on social systems and social conditions including the health of groups and populations. Relationships between macro-level social structures and micro-level experiences of health. Income and health are correlated, social status and health are correlated, and health and education are correlated, etc. The social model of health can be comprised of three parts. Social production and distribution of health and illness (materialistic things) Social construction of health care (vary across culture and history. Social organization of health care (health care does not equal health)
