ANTH 1120 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Medicine Wheel, World Health Organization, Anthropology Today
5 Mar 2018
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Anth 1120: making sense of a changing world: Terms: health physician, physical activity, culture beliefs, values, and practices learned thought and behaviour and passed from one generation to the next. Health: absence of disease, lifestyle, longevity, balance (yin and yang, physical, mental, emotional, spiritual state of being (medicine wheel- indigenous peoples, health care access (healing, socially and culturally shaped. Poor health as a result of inequality: definition of health. Health is a state of complete physical, social and mental wellbeing and not merely the absence of disease. The enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of health is one of the fundamental human rights of every human being without distinction of race, religion, political beliefs, economic or social condition (who, 1946). Human right- for everyone concept that everyone should strive for: medical anthropology. Broad field of study, many areas of concentration. Holistic in scope; looks beyond biology to understand health.
