IHST 1010 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Global Health, International Health, Appendicitis
17 Oct 2018
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Lecture 1: slide 3: academic integrity, spark library, monitor global health news, media, newspaper, online, weekly, midterm: october 18th. Social determinants of health: wealth, location, status, race, hereditary. The di erence is how much control they have over their lives: poor sections have more unhealthy places such as fast food locations in relation to the rich areas of town. The grocery stores also have less healthy food. News article for next class: baking soda: a safe, easy treatment for arthritis? https://www. medicalnewstoday. com/articles/321624. php (not good because not global) Social causes of illness: living conditions: kids living in a poor part of downtown toronto got blood poisoning by eating soil from a part where an old factory used to be, environmental factors, unemployment cycles/ stress/ depression: Reductionism: thinking about health as an absence of disease is a reductionistic approach. It narrows focus and ignores a broader context. For health promotion, same focus should be on both lifestyle as on life health.
