HLTC43H3 Chapter 2: Chapter 2 Health Notes.docx
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In the 19th century, scholars began to connect the health of populations to living population. Social scientists have also linked structures and political ideology to explain the organization of health care and health outcome. The scope of health studies now includes the determinants of health, the meaning of health held by individuals, and identifying public policy approaches by which health can be maintained. Health and its maintanence is more complex than examining ohysical health and treating disease. The political economy perspecetive is concerned with identifying the economic, political, and social structures that influence health. Takes two forms: directs attention to a broad range of health issues that include how the production and distribution of economic, political, and soial resources shape the health care system, as well as broad determinants of health. Understanding different conceptions of health is important because these ideas can strongly influence how health care services are organized and delivered, and how health-related policy is defined and implemented.
