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Before Midterm #1 Flashcards

1
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What is Health

A

Different for individuals/cultures
ever-changing
a state of being
multiple types

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2
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How was health viewed in the scientific era

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Defined as the freedom of disease

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What is health now

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Health is multidimensional
viewed as the quality of life and wellness

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4
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What are the multidimensional types of health

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Spiritual
Intellectual
Occupational
Physical
Emotional
Social
Environmental

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Spiritual Health

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Comfort
purpose in life
how you express self
belief systems
self-belief

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Social Health

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Connections
supportive environment
good friends

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Emotional Health

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Feelings
can be happy or sad

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Environmental Health

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The world
the things around you
positive/safe environment
clean=better
community health
physical environment

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Occupational Health

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Being happy/feeling good at work
healthy connections
getting good pay to survive in society

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What is Well-being

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a state of optimal well-being
considers how someone feels about their health

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Disease

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An objective state of health
uses science to determine

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Illness

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subjective
socially constructed
Influenced by time/place/feelings

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Signs

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Objective/observable
basis for diagnosis

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Symptoms

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Subjective
cannot directly observe
must ask questions to find out

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15
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Acute

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Short term illness
eg. broken arm, cold

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Chronic

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Long term illness
eg. Parkinson’s

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Impairment

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Loss or abnormality of physical, psychological, or anatomical functions
eg. limb amputation, paralysis

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Disability

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Restriction or lack of ability to perform an activity in a manner considered normal

19
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Disability Models

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Individual model
social model

20
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Individual Model (Disabilities)

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Personal tragedy
personal problem
individual treatment
care
control
medicalization
expertise
professional dominance
adjustment
attitudes
individual adaptation

21
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Social Model (Disabilities)

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Can change society’s health
Social oppression theory
social theory
social action
individual & collective responsibility
self-help
experience
affirmation
behaviour
rights
choice
social change

22
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Medical model (disabilities)

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Personal tragedy
individuals problem
“medicine possesses the cure”
Med prof are “experts” in their lives
diagnosed need to adjust
need care
prof makes decisions in their “best interests”
is a policy issue

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Social Model (in regards to medical model)

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Experience oppression
is a social problem
self-advocacy + support groups
are their own experts
have rights
should be included
political issue

24
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Sociology

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study of human relationships

25
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Sociology looks at medicine as

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historical factors
cultural factors
structural factors
critical factors

26
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How was health viewed in the pre+midevil times

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Illness- connected to spirits
body+soul- were beyond human
intervention- reliant on deities (go) for health

27
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1800’s

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rapid change on how the body & disease were viewed

28
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Old treatment (1800)

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spiritual entity with spiritual cures

29
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New treatment (1800)

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body is a machine and needs to be fixed by doctors (mechanics)
Biomedical model

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Biomedical model

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objectification (body is parts)
medical scientism (science is superior)
victim blaming (pt behavior)
reductionism (microbes)
biological determinants (assumption biology causes issues)

31
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1960’s

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agriculture + better living conditions = better health
brings in the social model of health

32
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Social model of health

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change in how ill health is caused
risk factors- individual causes
SDOH

33
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3 dimensions of the social model

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Social production + distribution of health + illness
Social Constrction
Social organization

34
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Criticisms

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To fast of social change
over-emphasis of med model harm
difficult + complex problems for a short term
under estimation of individual responsibility + psychological factors

35
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Structure

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Systems- ecological/political

36
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Agency

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Human agency- social interaction

37
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Rights of the Sick Role

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Exempt from normal responsibilities
have social roles + responsibilities

38
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Responsibilities of the sick role

A

Get well
seek competent medical help
comply with treatments

39
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