FNF 100 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Victim Blaming
4 Feb 2016
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Social determinants of health: overview of key themes. The extent at which an individual stays healthy or becomes ill. Quality and quantity of resources that a society makes available. Health is determined how the society arranges it. Lowest employment groups showed greatest rate of suffering. Social factors and societal forces (economic, social, political) Access to health care increase healthy living rates (vaccines) Improvements in health are due to improving material conditions of everyday life. Income is a linker between the other determinants of health; differences in wealth. Disease related to income; heart disease and stroke. Swedens policies target income and wealth improved health. Behavioural choices are structured by one s material conditions of life. Materialist: how living conditions and social determinants of health constitue these living conditions. Psychosocial: whether we compare ourselves to others and how these comparisons affect our health and well-being. Early life assures adequate educational opportunities, food, housing.
