HLTA02H3- Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 47 pages long!)

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Quizzes : do it as often as you need to =free marks basically (in 2 weeks) only the most current one counts* Lecture 01 critical thinking in health studies september 05. Critical health studies is informed by a critical social science perspective that considers the: Social and cultural construction and aspects of health and health care. Critical health studies is an approach that challenges and analyses current conceptions of health and health care. Ideologies and principles that underpin health and health care. Critical health studies is ideally transdisciplinary; relies on a critical social science perspective. Health studies can not be equated with health sciences though it does value the contributions of the health sciences (even as we critique them) Health studies (at utsc) represents a kind of interdisciplinary epistemic community: Transnational network of knowledge-based experts who help decision-makers to define the problems they face, identify various policy solutions and assess the policy outcomes.