HSCI 130 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: Amenable Group, Health Professional, Population Health
7 May 2013
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Approach avoids medico-centrism b/c it includes community who are managing their health through informal care as well as those to receive treatment from the formal health care system. All members of society must be taken into account. Health is multi-faceted : includes physical dimension, psychological dimension and social dimension. A broad range of personal and structural factors that affect health status. Health determents biology, generic endowment, personal practice such as diet and level of physical active, and availably and accessibility of health care services as well as social and economic facto ( living and working conditions) Social structures and personal practice is a part in shaping health statuses. Lack of consensus about the meaning of population health. Needs clarify key population health concepts (such as determinates, dispraise and outcomes) Lack of theatrical foundation for contemporary population health research. Focus our attention on need for sociological framework for understanding why some canadians are healthier.
