[HLTA02H3] - Final Exam Guide - Everything you need to know! (26 pages long)
Document Summary
Several disciplines, work indiv. on same issue with little interaction. Ex. public health prof, sociologist, psychologist, etc. Come together, but largely work on their own. Partially overlapping and sharing: transdisciplinary : Use of mixed methods - quantitative and qualitative. Multitude of (contested) meanings: human right, commodity, homeostasis, tness and function, absence of disease, a means to an end (vice versa) Three models of health: medical - biomedical: dominant, informs clinical practice, psycho-social behaviour: informs health ed, health psychology, social -socioenvironmenal: central to hs, ampli ed in the who def. Body = machine (reductionist = getting down to smallest part) broken down into parts. Ex. stomach worm example. take out the worm, use antibiotics. Not value free, embedded in larger society. Mid 20th century: growing dissatisfaction w this model. Concerns raises about latrogenesis (ivan illych): medicine robs us of our potential to cope causes (unintentional) harm.
