HLTC23H3 Study Guide - Community Health Systems, Nuclear Family, Gender Inequality
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Lecture 3 the ecological model of child development january 23, 2012: bronfenbrenner"s (1979) ecological model. Microsystem: environment where child lives and moves; includes people and institutions that child directly interacts with; nuclear family members, child carers, teachers, peers. Mesosystem: relates to interactions people in microsystems have with each other; as parents interact with childcare providers, or as neighbours interact with each other; i. e. , childcare, schools, religious groups, neighbourhood. Exosystem: broader community in which child lives; extended family, family networks, mass media, workplaces, community health systems, legal services, welfare services. Macrosystem: contains the attitudes and ideologies, values, laws and customs of a particular culture or subculture. Spheres of influence: the individual child, the family, the residential community, ecd programs and services, regional and national, the global. The process of early experience becoming solidified and influencing health and development over the long-term (hertzman 1999, in irwin et al.
