Defining Health and How to Conduct Health Research

Question 1

Critical health studies

Answer 1

The critical analysis of heealth and health care

Question 2

Health science vs health studies

Answer 2

Health sciences: Practice of medicine in regards to health
Health studies: Belief that health is more than biological factors

Question 3

Wellbeing

Answer 3

Being in a state where all of one’s basic necessities are fulfilled

Question 4

Social sciences involved in health studies and their definitions

Answer 4

Health sociology: The social influences on health

Health geography: The influence of location and space on health

Medical anthropology: Bio-cultural and ecological aspects

Health psychology: How mental processes contribute to health

Health economics: Access to health resources

Question 5

What questions are asked in health studies?

Answer 5

Social and cultural contructs?
What are the ideologies, principles, and powers?
What are present and future challenges and how are they experienced?

Question 6

When and how did critical thinking and critical research emerge?

Answer 6

Marxist social science were the roots of critical thinking in 1970s-1980s and then crtical researcher emerged in the 1990s.

Question 7

What are the 12 core components of being critical thinkers of health?

Answer 7

Challenge societal norms
Find and question the processes behind everyday social practices
Advocate for the minorities
Address issues w/ negative impacts
Enhance research
Involve the public
Think outisde the box
Apply local problems to global issues
Express voices of people affected
Humbleness and reflexivity
Solidarity with minorities
Question “evidence”

Question 8

What are some criticisms agains health studies?

Answer 8

No longer radical, repetitive, over-theorizes, and lacks a solid political following

Question 9

Disciplinarity

Answer 9

The notion that it is best to combine types of disciplines to because you have different unique approaches to the same problem

Question 10

What are the four aspects of health studies?

Answer 10

Social sciences, humanities, empirical/conceptual studies and practice disciplines

Question 11

What are the main disciplines associated with the social study of health?

Answer 11

Sociology, psychology, georgraphy and ethics

Question 12

Describe health sociology

Answer 12

How institutions, social structures and communities affect health

Question 13

Describe health psychology

Answer 13

How people’s thoughts and behaviours influence their health

Question 14

Describe health geography

Answer 14

How space and place affect health, regardless of if it’s artifical or not

Question 15

Describe health ethics

Answer 15

Morals in health studies and health care

Question 16

Multidisciplinarity

Answer 16

Using different distinct disciplines with different approaches for the same problem

Question 17

Interdisciplinarity

Answer 17

Researchers uses expert’s knowledge from different disciplines by informing each other

Question 18

Transdisciplinarity

Answer 18

Takes place in all disciplinary approaches to understand the topic

Question 19

How can each collaborative study be represented?

Answer 19

Multidisciplinary = separate circles
Transdisciplinarity = circles overlap a bit
Transdisciplinarity = everyone overalsp and are inside of a circle

Question 20

How do you include synonyms when using LibrarySearch

Answer 20

Put “OR” between words

Question 21

How does the Government of Canada define health?

Answer 21

Mostly a result of lifestyle but is far more complex as well.

Question 22

How does the WHO define health?

Answer 22

Not just the absence of disease, but also being in a good STATE physically, mentally and socially

Question 23

What are the two alt definitions of health described in lecture?

Answer 23

One’s ability to adapt when faced with physical, mental and social challenges.
A collective value where everyone has equitable power and resources that contribute to their health care