Health Sciences 1002A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Condom, Safe Sex, Determinant
3 Mar 2016
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Your body is your dwelling: health exercise, not smoking, no bumps/abnormalities, health care. Individualistic - things that you as an individual should be doing. We have certain ideas about health that tend to be focused on individuals. Lifestyle explanations of health are dominant in north american, western societies. Research has consistently shown that social factors are better predictors of health than individual behaviours or lifestyles. Individuals could see, observe, record and generate knowledge, know-ers . Lifestyle explanations are historically contingent (rooted) > became popular in 1970s. Research has consistently shown that social factors are better predictors of health than individual behaviours or lifestyles at the group/population level of analysis. E. g. we know condoms are used for safe sex, but giving out free condoms does not mean someone will use it. Health and ill health are not distributed randomly, but vary according to economic and other social factors. However, first nations mortality rates remain at large.
