HSCI 130 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Medical Sociology, Health Education, Population Health

• School: Simon Fraser University
• Department: Health Sciences
• Course: HSCI 130
• Professor: Myint Tun

Document Summary

How is health viewed as social construction. Our pursuit of health has important social dimensions and re ects di ering locations within the structure of society. Both health and illness of our bodies and the manner in which we understand these concepts are in uenced by social concepts: contrast the social understanding of health and wellness with a biomedical perspective of health. The biomedical perspective views health as the physical body being free of disease; health and illness are objective biological states. The social perspective views health and illness as social constructions. Wellness is not merely the absence of disease, it is the overall balance of physical, mental, spiritual, social, intellectual, environmental and occupational well-being: how has the responsibility for health shifted over the last 50 years. The move from government involvement towards individual responsibility for health. The impact of consumer culture and medical consumerism.