Prior To Midterm 1 Flashcards
The meaning health changes between…
….cultures
-for example schizoprenia and weight loss or gain
Scientific era
Health is a lack of disease
Environmental health
People, and the experiences you are surrounded by
-house state
-relationships
Occupational health
Work and life balance, financial stability
-chemical safety
-meaningful purpose
Social health
Interactions with people
-friends
-connections
Spiritual health
Personal reflection, belief in a higher power or freedom in who/what you believe
Health compared to wellness
Health- state of being
Wellness- state of optimal wellbeing
Disease compared to illness
Disease- objective state of ill health
Illness- subjective, socially constructed
Signs compared to symptoms
Signs- objective, observable (temp or blood pressure)
Symptoms- subjective, not observable (stomach ache)
Acute compared to chronic
Acute- short term
Chronic- long term
Disability
Loss or abnormality
Impairment
Restriction or lack of ability
Impairment
Restriction or lack of ability
Disability as seen in the Medical model
-a personal tragedy
-adjustment for people
-need care
-individual problem
Disability seen in the Social model
Social oppression
-rights
-society needs to adjust
-social problem
Conceptualizations of health
-stability
-actualozation
-resource
-unity
Models of health
-medical
-holistic
-wellness
-social ecological
Medical model of health
Disease
Holistic model of health
All parts of the person
-balance
Wellness model of health
Process
-wide range of factors
Social ecological model of health
Many factors that effect health
-complex
Actualization
Ones true self
-optimal human health
Salutogenic
Difficult situations help people to cope
-creation and maintenance of good health
-meaningfullness
Factors of sociology
-historical
-cultural
-structural
-critical
Church and medical times
Medicine was prayers
-illness was sin
-reliant on deities for health
Louis Pasteur
Germ theory of disease
John snow
Found the cause of chorea outbreak
Fallacy of specific ethology
Diseased caused by one thing
Objectification
Person is seemed as their issue or brokeness
Medical scientism
Science is the most superior form of treatment
Reductionism
Not considering social aspect, just the microscopy of the disease
Biological determination
Ones biology determines health status
Victim blaming
Blaming the person rather than social determinations of sickness
Dr Thomas mckeown
Recognized that agriculture and better living a part of health
Social production
Distribution and location
Social construction
Definition health and illness
Social organization
Healthcare and public policies
Two types of Grand theories
Structural functionalism
-symbolic interactionisms
Structural functionism
Society is a system of integrated parts
-every person has a specific role
-conservative
Parsons sick role
Being sick is a form of deviancy
-exempt from your role in society
-adher to doctors, you must get better
-good health and medical care is essential
Symbolic interactionism
Microlevel: what human beings do in a society
-reality based on interactions with each other (meanings to change)
-health illness are social constructions (can change)
Medicalization
Something that was not medical that now is
-medical marjuana
Post modernism
Claims on word is socially constructed by their viewpoint
-subjective
-there isnt ‘one’ truth
-may different kinds of treatments
-power shifts
Four conflict theories
-marxism
-feminism
-race
-post colonialism
Marxism
Controlling group and an oppressed group
-macrolevel
-value comes from physical wellbeing and worldly possessions
-exploitation leads to disease and lack of safety
Feminism
Socially constructed power differences between men and women
-a lot of biological research done on men, affects accuracy of health on women
-abortion as an act against patriarchy and control
-diversity of females in medical field
Race
Sociopolitical construction of power over the Other
-patients dying due to racism
-health equity
-impact day to day
Post colonialism
The impact of colonialism
-the Other
-indigenous health (systemic structured racism causes lower life expectancy)
Social marketing
Commercial marketing techniques in a way that benefits society
-poverty or children foundations
Education in social marketing
Influences behavior by new ideas
-not sufficient
Policy
Influences choice
-don’t want control
The four p’s of social marketing
-product
-price
-place
-promotion
P-roduct
Tangible- must wear helmets to bike
Practice- immunizations
P-rice
Measured in time and effort
-old habits affect wanting to oblige
P-lace
How it reaches consumer
-like bathroom signs
P-romotion
Motivate to try and continue
Purse strings
Where does the money come from
Policy
Creates a push
Partnership
Working with
Public
Internal and external groups
Life course perspective
The full view on a persons life, beginning with an event history
Cohort
Group of people born at same time and experience particular social changes
Life event
Significant change and disruption
Trajectory
Multiple turning points
-long term event
Turning point
Major change that has lasting changes in ones life
-more obvious after time passes
Transition
Occur with trajectories
-changes in roles or status
Can a transition be a turning point?
Yes, if it comes with crisis, conflict or no typical age (pregnancy)
Systemic racism
White supremacy imbedded into policies and processes of Canadian institutions
-advantage white
whiteness
Refers to a system that advantages euro Canadians over BIPOC
Institutions
Church, school, government
Why is systemic racism a SDOH
-geographic isolation
-residential schools
-difficulty accessing healthcare
Settler societies
Rooted in western territories
Settler colonialism
Replacement of indigenous populations
-invasive
-false narratives are told of indigenous people
Imperialism
-allowed colonialism to occur
Race of claiming parts of the world for monarchs
How did settler colonialism occur
-scientific justification
-doctrine of discovery
-imperialism
Indian act
Stipulation which controlled indigenous people and worked towards assimilation
Who are the indigenous people in Canada
Aboriginal (First Nations Métis Inuit)
First Nations include
-treaty (status)
-non treaty (non status)
What does it mean to be “treaty” or status
Belong to a First Nations group that has a treaty with the government
Métis
Formed post contact and pre confederation
-self identify, historic ancestry
-connected within the community (acceptance)
Inuit
People in northern Canada arctic
-colonized much later than other indigenous communities due to their geographic location