[HLTA02H3] - Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam (25 pages long!)

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Disease, trauma or health condition normal state disabled state medical intervention (target where the problem, treat it) normal state (treated) )t"s decontextualizing: ignores the significance of cultural and other contextual factors. It oversimplifies the biological process (ex. a boy breaks his arm, medical staff may not think of abuse in the home but that he may have tripped and fell) Although modern medicine recognizes that the body is not a machine, it is. Beyond medical definitions of health (know for midterm) often still treated as such. Salutogenesis wanted to promote health focus instead of disease. Everyone: when people say (cid:498)let"s talk about health(cid:499) we talk about the negative, let"s talk about what"s going to make you healthy, emphasis on relationship between health, stress and coping aspects instead of the healthy side. Behavioural & psycho social models: cauase stems from individual beliefs, behaviours, etc. Combines elements of medical model with health psychology.