HLTH 101 Final: HLTH 101 Week 1-12 Study Notes

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Health Studies
• Course: HLTH 101
• Professor: Elaine Power

Document Summary

To improve health: reduce poverty, reduce income inequality, improve opportunities for higher education, reduce homelessness, reduce racism and discrimination, improve gender equality. Collectivists and socialist ideology: emphasis on: the role of the state as a principal means of social improvement, limiting the effects of capitalism, key words: humanitarianism, social justice, social responsibility, interconnection, community. Social determinants of health: a comparative approach (p. 16-40: risk factor model: a biomedical variant; focuses on the interaction of host and agent. a behaviour variant; emphasizes health behaviour (lifestyle factors). Terms to know from week 2: gross domestic product (gdp): one of the primary indicators used to gauge the health of a country"s economy. A weakness tends to be to blame the victim: blaming the victim : it can be almost impossible to determine how far a patient"s lifestyle is a matter of choice versus social pressures and constraints.