Health Sciences 2700A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Literature Review, Cerebral Palsy, Unicef
2 Nov 2015
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Health, childhood & adolescence-the construction of ideas through the example of dis"-ability. Knowledge about health, childhood, and adolescence exist: Is culturally constructed: differs substantially by theoretical and methodological orientation i. e. , how we think these things work" and how we investigate them. Ideas about disability" will be used to flesh these ideas out health is a continuum, understanding how knowledge is produced, not just a linear way things are produced. Health is a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity (who, 1946). The who also tells us that health is: A resource for everyday life and is a positive concept emphasizing social and personal resources as well as physical capabilities. Much more murky and complicated than we might first think Illustrates the power of definitions of health to include and exclude.
