SOCI 3820 Lecture Notes - Unintended Consequences, Harm Reduction, Criminal Law
26 Nov 2013
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Combining two different things to make something out if it: e. g. medical-legal hybrid it is illegal for people not to disclose their hiv/aids status to their partners. The media construction of mental ill individual being dangerous. Public health operates as a power and encourages us to align out conduct to the risk information. There are unintended consequence to these kind of promotions. What is public health: it is it the same as the publicly funded health care, public health was established many years before medicare was. Has a longer history: when we are talking about public health we aren"t talking about personal healthcare but rather health as a collective, the health of the community how to promote the health and protect that health. Historical examples of public health: efforts to control sanitary, efforts to control outbreaks of disease. Dates back to the 1400s and dates back to the florentine procedures: controlling over crowding, improving the housing and introducing.
