HLTA02H3 Chapter 1: Chapter 1
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It is instructive to examine topics such as the evolution of the dominant paradigm of scientific medicine, determinants of health and illness, and the focus of research and levels of analysis. Essential to understand the current organization and delivery of health services, and ideological constraints and limitations within which the policy alternatives to solve the. Evolution and the dominant paradigm of scientific medicine y the germ theory of disease, which gained prominence in the late 19th century, had a profound impact on the practice of medicine (koch,pasteur) created a profound change in medicine s diagnostic and therapeutic assumptions. people can be made healthy by medical technologies and technological fixes. adopted mechanistic model of the human body. disease, then, is an alteration, a pathological change in the body machinery that must be fixed (diseases viewed as mere technical defects)
