HE301 Chapter Notes -Health Canada, Neuroendocrinology, Economic Globalization
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Broad frameworks that consider how social determinants of health directly and indirectly influence health are of great value. Identify the immediate and more distant societal structures that shape quality of social determinants. Limits analysis of health risks to individual biomedical and behavioral risk factors for disease: responses =behavioral regime or treatment with drugs, approach makes individual carry out series of behavioral changes. Lack of evidence to give biomedical factors a primary role in contracting disease/illness. Lack of evident that supports people at risk can change their behaviors: behavioral interventions in vulnerable populations aren"t very successful. Ideological view that poverty is from individual"s failure to seize opportunity/to work sufficiently hard within current social structure. Individualism assumes current social system provides equal opportunity for individuals to move within social system according to abilities. Individualist approaches dominate public beliefs, health care, governmental policy to health promotion/population health. Social determinants = social living conditions people experience.
