Health Sciences 1002A/B Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Social Medicine, Talcott Parsons, Louis Pasteur
24 Apr 2018
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# of years ppl can expect to live without chronic illness or disability: canada ranks in top for hale and le, not because of biological reasons. Health of immigrants adjusts to that of host country (cid:862)health(cid:455) i(cid:373)(cid:373)igra(cid:374)t effe(cid:272)t(cid:863: le indicators actually mask a lot of health inequalities among social groups. Competing perspectives on health: perspective frames things in a certain way ex. Problem in individual, you treat the individuals: conversely, if problem is in society then we need to fix problem in society, ex. If water is not safe to drink and individual will buy bottled water, which creates a social problem. The decisions people make that are likely to impact their health, such as diet, exercise, smoking, alcohol, and other drugs. Social perspective on health: social systems and social conditions, social, economic, cultural and political, health of groups and populations, relationships between macro-level social structures (text p. 15) and micro-level experiences of health and illness.
