NSE 31A/B Lecture Notes - Class Discrimination, Health Promotion, Independent Community And Health Concern
20 Oct 2013
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Health physical, mental (stress free), family, community interaction. Health is physical, mental and social in nature. Health: a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and mot merely the absence of disease or infirmity: the wealth has better health. Poverty is a key determinant of health, and education is important for health. a resource for everyday life, not the objective of living: health is more of a process, people need to have all the resources available to live a healthy life. Health depends on our ability to understand and manage the interaction btw human and their environment: need to look if their interaction with their environment is positive or negative, ex. One neighbour have three supermarket while another have none and they have to go to a different area. Have to the physical nature of the illness. Risk condition give rise to risk behaviour such as substance abuse, violence, smoking, poor eating, unprotected sex.
