Health and Medicine Flashcards
1
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Sample of major social health issues
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- Depression/mental illness
- Sexually transmitted diseases
- obesity
- Substance addiction
2
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bio vs behavioral model of health, and biopsychosocial model
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- Only concerns with the physical, and genetic factors
- Only concerns lifestyle choices
- include both
3
Q
Def of health, and medicine
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- A state of physical, mental, and social well-being, not just the absence of diseases
- Society’s standards way of dealing with illness
4
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Social causes of illness and death
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- Human-environmental factors
- Lifestyle factor
- Public health system
5
Q
Epidemiology and social epidemiology
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- Study of the cause of diseases
- Study of how health and diseases are distributed throughout society
6
Q
How healthy a person is in society may depend on…
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- Social class (rich vs poor)
- Ethnicity, and racialized groups
- Gender
- Age
7
Q
Structural-functional of health and illness
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- How a sick person ought to act
+ Exemption from responsibility
+ Must seek help
+ Must want to feel better
8
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Symbolic-interaction of health and illness
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- Medicalization of deviance
- How immoral, legal issues are medical matters
9
Q
Social-conflict of health and illness
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- Inequality of access to healthcare
- Medical care and profit motives
- Medicine as social control
10
Q
Problems with Canadian healthcare
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- Unequal availability
- Overuse of the system
- Provider dependant
- Cost
11
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Euthanasia
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- Assisted suicide/good death
- Passive (allow to) vs active (actively assist to)
