LECTURE 7: HEALTH AND WELL BEING

Question 1

Globalization

Answer 1

The growing economic, political, and social interconnectedness among societies throughout the world.

Leads to new health related challenges:
1. Increased travel means increased spread of communicable diseases
2. Globalization also reduces the power of government
3. Reduces working conditions in poor countries

Question 2

Universal healthcare

Answer 2

First started in Saskatchewan Canada in 1962

Due to meritocracy with the weather not working in your favour farming skills became irrelevant they recognized the need for free healthcare due to poverty happening to anyone

Question 3

Healthcare in the US

Answer 3

1. The only developed nation without universal health care
2. Spends more per person healthcare than any other country in the OCED
3. Overall quality of health care is worse but high-income Americans receive better care

Question 4

Why is costs higher in the US?

Answer 4

Private health care is subject to free market economies: supply and demand

Consumers lack power in a healthcare free market due to
1. Time
2. Valuation

Question 5

Mental illness vs mental health

Answer 5

Abnormal vs normal
- mental illness is stigmatized and is called the hidden epidemic
- untreated mental illness can lead to violence, distress or poverty

Question 6

3 challenges to understand and address the mental health epidemic

Answer 6

Mental health is…
1. Socially defined
2. Tied to culture
3. Tied to conception is of morality

Question 7

Erving Goffman’s dramaturgy (stigmatization )

Answer 7

Front stage: The self that we show the world.
Back stage: our true selves

Question 8

Who hold corporations responsible

Answer 8

1. Gov
2. Consumers
3. The justice court system

Question 9

Spurious relationships

Answer 9

When a causal argument for example X causes Y is found to be false