PSYC 3100 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Whitehall Study, Sexual Predator, Immunodeficiency

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 3100
• Professor: Kieran O' Doherty

Document Summary

Where a baby is born and mother"s access to water, food, education determines if baby will lives past 5. What people can do to change their lives is not always a matter of personal choice. In globalized economy, everything is inter-connected and macro- social economic policies create context for everything. Dominant discourse of neo-liberal = person is self agent and responsible for their own health (individualism) responsible consumer (rc): active processor of info and knowledge. Traditional approached aimed to influenced lifestyle of person. More recently; we acknowledge the power of markets to: personal responsibility (e. g. increasing self-esteem, positive promotion of healthy behaviours and lifestyle, adapting the environment to make healthy choices easier. Government"s approach to improving health influence our behaviours shifting to policy. Gdp (gross domestic product): measure of output that indicates welfare (+ correlation with health and - correlated with infant mortality and inequality. Epidemiology: distribution of disease and death and their determinants/consequences.