Narratives of Health Flashcards
1
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Define ‘health’
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Health is a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely in the absence of disease or infirmity
2
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What is epidemiology?
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The study of the occurrence and distribution of health related events, states or processes in specified populations.
3
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Define medical humanities
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A series of intersections, exchanges and entanglements between the biomedical sciences, the arts, the humanities and the social sciences
4
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What is the value of the humanties?
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To learn how to be human and humane
5
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Define entanglements
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When people have different context that they come from and they promote different versions of reality in nature
