Health Sciences 1002A/B Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Biomedical Model, Scientism, Louis Pasteur

• School: Western University
• Department: Health Sciences
• Course: Health Sciences 1002A/B
• Professor: Shauna Burke

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We tend to think of health individually, but there is also a social aspect: health due to luck, genetics, and poor lifestyle are individual thoughts o. Individual things like suicide also have social contexts o o o o o o. Healthy immigrant effect the health of immigrants comes to reflect that of their host country over time, rather than their country of origin. The longer immigrants live in their new country, the more their health mirrors that of the local population. Life expectancy can increase in a short period of time, may not be due to genetics o: often mask significant health inequalities between social groups within a country. Life expectancy are crude indicators of public health. Public health policies, programs and services designed to keep citizens healthy and to improve the quality of life, focuses on groups rather than the individual. Class position in a system of structured inequality based on unequal distribution of resources, power, wealth, etc.