HLTA02H3 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Social Constructionism, Medicalization, Epidemiological Transition
13 Oct 2016
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Introduced & described health studies as a multidisciplinary social science field. Compared health studies to mainstream approaches in the health sciences. Health studies considers the social & cultural construction & aspects of health & health care, the ideologies & principles that underpin health & health care & the health challenges facing individuals & populations. Introduced some key facets that constitute the field"s critical approach. Highlighted the range of disciplines comprising critical health studies. Depicted the ways in which academics working across the social sciences, humanities & conceptual fields have made important contributions to understandings of health. Highlighted the ways in which individual & organizations outside of academia have adapted tools & ideas from cross-disciplinary critical studies of health to explore people"s experience of health & illness. Health & illness are a central part of everyday lives. Treated health & illness as labels, meanings, or interpretations that are applied to certain behaviours & conditions.
