HLTA02H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Coronary Artery Disease, Millennium Development Goals, Saturated Fat
12 Oct 2016
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Understand how health threats can be conceptualized. Analyze how changing patterns of health relate to key societal events. Identify the main public health issues within contemporary society. Defining what may seem as a threat to health depends heavily on how health is defined. If health is considered under a positive frameworks, then the word threat. Is linked to negative, commodity, pathogenic & biomedical concepts of. Is not appropriate, as we are concerned with creation of health not avoidance of disease, illness & disabilities. Often idea of health (popularly) limited to notions of physical health, with increasing recognition of mental health. Social & community health is relatively neglected in popular discourses of health. Can shape what we define as threats to health. Similarly defining influences of health as biological in nature, leading to ill-health & malfunctioning of healthy physiological state of body - threats will be conceived as factors.
