Health Sciences 1002A/B Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Neoliberalism, Economic Globalization, Social Comparison Theory
27 Feb 2014
School
Department
Course
Professor
Document Summary
Health science review chapter 2- social structure, living conditions and health. Biomedical risk there is screening and testing and some form of mandated regime or treatment. Behavioural risk there is a usual approach of exhorting the individual to carry out series of changes in their behaviour. Little evidence to support the assumption that those most at risk can change their behaviours by making healthy choices and the behavioural and biomedical approached play a relatively minor role in predicting chronic diseases and such. Individualist approaches dominate but they are not always the best approaches. Specifying the material and social living conditions that people experience. Quality of these social determinants is a reflection of the organization of society and how society distributes economic and social resources. Materialist explanations for the social determinants of health and health status relationship. Sees objective living conditions as explaining how social determinants of health shape health status.
