HLTH 101 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1-3: Fetus, Numeracy, Neuroplasticity
16 Jan 2018
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Some succumb to disease, disability, and death where others remain healthy and vital much longer due to an individuals genes and personality or choice. Some threats to health are behavioural and examples that increase our risk of bad health outcomes are smoking or riding a bike with no helmet. Other risks are environmental and those include air pollution, food contamination and airborne pathogens. Health behaviours can be changed through education, persuasion and treatment regimes. Environmental risks can be changed through public health intervention. Our genes determine our level of susceptibility in the face of various threats (ie. breast cancer) Risk factors may be health behaviours or environmental factors. Ideology: a system of beliefs and values that justifies a particular outlook and approach to social and political issues. In united states the health care market is less regulated than in canada, britain and.
