INTRODUCTION TO HEALTH

Question 1

what are the three important factors in health?

Answer 1

• the social and economic environment
• the physical environment
• a person’s characteristics and behaviours

Question 2

what is associated with the social and economic environment?

Answer 2

• education level
• greater ability to select environments
• greater access to health resources hat are not subsided

Question 3

what is associated with the physical environment?

Answer 3

environmental - e.g. decreased biodiversity

and how that can impact human health outcome e.g. is your neighbourhood walkable?

Question 4

what are some different person characteristics and behaviours?

Answer 4

• a shy or anxious person
• an aggressive person
• a risk taker

Question 5

what are ideological influences?

Answer 5

neoliberal - associated with evils of capitalism e.g. accumulating wealth allows for better access to health care - valued for individual choice

social justice - associated with the evils of socialism e.g. why should I pay taxes for a smokers hospital bill - valued for promoting health for entire population

Question 6

what are lifestyle drifts?

Answer 6

it efers to the tendency to focus on lifestyle faactors even when social determinantes have been identified:
- existing ideologieis, pressure from vested interets, resistance to social change.

Question 7

what are the 4 representations of childhood shaping policy

Answer 7

1. the economic child (child as consumers)
2. developing beings (developmental psychology)
3. children as citizens (children’s rights)
4. global child perspective (chilren facing war, famine etc)

Question 8

what are the conventions on the rights of the child (CRC0

Answer 8

there are 4 fundamnetal principles:

• non discriination
• the best interests of the child
• survival, development and protection
• participation