HLTH 101 Midterm: HLTH 101 Mid-term notes 2011
16 Sep 2013
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Tipping point: we are at several tipping points in change, environmental, economic/financial, government. /politics/democracy, religious institutions, human suffering. Malcolm gladwell focusing on something that is larger than ourselves. Improve opportunities for higher education: reduce poverty, reduce income inequality, reduce homelessness, reduce racism and discrimination, reduce gender inequality. A what of thinking that encourages us to explain the work in terms of what goes on inside individuals and nothing else: society is just a collection of individuals. If there is only individuals who are responsible for racism: this is the main way of thinking about responsibility, there is only people and no society, this is how people think of health. Consequences: effects how we think about social life and how we make sense of the world, blame individuals for problems and expect individuals to pi problems. If you think there is only individuals you will never be able to fix the problem.
