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What is health?

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The WHO is a state of complete physical, mental, and social well being

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Physical health

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The functioning of the body

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Mental health

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Well being that allows each individual to realize their potential and cope with the normal stresses in life

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Social health

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The role of social connections in our health

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Health sociologists are interested in 3 things, what are they?

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The social causes of disease within a population rather than on the immediate cause of individuals illness

Larger social causes of health and illness, and looking for larger solutions to health problems

How different groups of people come to have different health outcomes

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Sick role

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Set of expectations about how to act when we are sick

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3 parts to the sick role

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The person is not held personally responsible for their poor health

The sick person is entitled to certain rights and privileges

The sick person is expected to take sensible steps to regain their health

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Criticisms of Parsons sick theory

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1) pack of clarity as to when an individual is allowed to take on sick role (cough and runny nose? Or pukeing?)
2) lack of clarity surrounding who has the power to deem who is sick and who is not
3) fails to take into account how the sick role changes over time and differs depending on culture

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Social determinants of health

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The larger social factors that affect our health

Things like where you’re born, live, work, grow old

Influenced by larger distributions of money and power at the local, national, and global levels

Major factors in creating health disparities and unequal health conditions

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Social determinants of heath are impacted by serval sets of factors. Such as…

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Immediate, individual-level conditions such as our age, sex, and other genetic factors

Individual lifestyle choices such as smoking and eating behaviours

Social and community networks related to living and working conditions, education, housing

Genera socio-economic, cultural, and environmental conditions

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Health disparities

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The differences in health stratus across groups linked to social, economic, or environmental conditions

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Different measures of health inequalities

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1) life expectancy
2) healthy life expectancy
3) chronic disease prevalence

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Life expectancy

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The average number of years a population can expect to live to

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Healthy life expectancy

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The average number of healthy years one can expect to live if current pattern of death and illness remain the same

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Chronic disease prevalence

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How common chronic diseases are across groups of people

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There are several important types of health disparities that may affect Canadians. Those are:

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Class
Education
Race and ethnicity
Gender

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Class (part of health inequality)

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Poorer Canadians have worse mental health

Poor are seeing little improvements compared to the rich

Strong inequalities between social classes

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Education (part of health inequality)

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1) education is related to social class and income, two big components of health
2) education tends to improve our ability to understand health information
3) education increases your feelings of efficacy, the belief that you can change things around you

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Race and ethnicity (part of health inequality)

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Racism and discrimination affect the life experiences of visible minorities and indigenous people, including access to health care

The relationship between ethnicity and health outcomes is partially shaped by social class

in Canada health outcomes for indigenous are particular unequal

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Gender (part of health inequality)

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Women live longer than men
-boys are encouraged to take risks

The differences in how we socialize

Masculinity today is in part defined by financial success, which involves keeping emotions and aggressive behavior in

Women live longer than men but have poorer health

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Obesity and the measures of it

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BMI is the best way to measure obesity

Men are likely to be fat compared to women
Poorer people may be overweight compared to wealthy

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Health care systems

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The organization of people, resources, and institutions that provide and deliver heath care to a population

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3 types of health care systems

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Government funded
Patient funded
Mixed systems

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The Canadian health care system

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Socialized insurance system

Government pays doctors and hospitals for their services

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5 main standards for health care in Canada

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1) universality
2) accessibility
3) comprehensive
4) portable
5) publicly administered

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Universality

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Every Canadian has equal access to the system

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Accessibility

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Must be accessible to all regardless of financial barriers

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Comprehensive

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Must cover all medically necessary services

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Portable

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Individuals can access care in any province

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Publically administered

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Operated on a not-for-profit basis

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Criticisms for Canadian health care

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Not comprehensive enough!

Does not cover some services like regular dental care, drugs, ambulance transport, private hospital beds

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Health policies

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The decisions and actions that are undertaken to achieve specific heath care goals within a health care system

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Opioid crisis

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Fentanyl is highly addictive

More than 14,700 apparent opioid related deaths occurred between 2016-2019

19,490 opioid related poisonings occurred

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Acute illnesses

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more severe and begin quickly

Like breaking your arm

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Chronic Illnesses

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slow to develop but longterm

Like asthma

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disability

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Mental or Physical condition that limits a persons daily activities and restricts what they can do

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People first philosophy

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Focuses on what the abilities of an individual opposed to their disability

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Ableism

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Discrimination against people who have a cognitive or physical disability on the basis of stereotypes about their limitations

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United Nations Convention of the Rights of Persons with Disabilities

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Provides a lost of rights and how nations should protect the disabled

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