HLTA02H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Salutogenesis, Inflectional Phrase, Social Constructionism
Document Summary
Book aims to provide an in-depth multi-disciplinary overview of the health studies field. Contemp health studies focuses on what health studies is about as a discipline, examining how health is conceptualized in various ways and how it might be understood from a variety of diff disciplinary perspectives. Health is strongly influenced by social and individ factors. Health studies draws from a range of theoretical stances to allow for diff perspectives to be applied to health related issues. Discipline encourages us to engage critically inn the numerous discourses surrounding health. The book examines human experience of health as it is mediated by the individ, societal and global contexts, with an emphasis on the social, political, and environmental dimensions of health. Additional material is available on the companion website. Overview of how health is conceptualized and understood the nature of health, how we define it, and how we experience it: diff definitions of health influences by diff factors.
