[HLTHAGE 1AA3] - Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam (57 pages long!)

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Health and illness have many cultural, social, political and economic dimensions that extend well beyond a bio-medical perspective. Health sciences vs. health studies: health sciences (medicine) is a collection of disciplines that support and constitute medicine as medical, occupational therapies, and clinical specialties. Occupational categories doctors, nurses, occupational therapy, pharmacology. Clinical specialties pediatrics, cardiology, family practice: health studies constitutes: Social sciences disciplines (i. e. sociology, political sciences, religious studies) Contemporary interdisciplinary academic fields (i. e. aboriginal studies, women"s studies) Health studies uses quantitative and qualitative methods: quantitative ( hard" method) Statistical analysis of health records, census data, and other surveys: qualitative ( soft" method) Interviews, focus groups, participant observations, and document analysis (journals, letters, etc ) Different research tools we use are peer reviewed journals and text books. Decision making approach is about understanding what variables are considered when making a decision: 1) equity or moral relativity. Tommy douglas was the father of universal health care in canada.

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