Prior To Midterm Flashcards

1
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What is health?

A

-varies
-whole of body
-meaningful when we don’t have
-multidimensional

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WHO definition of health

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State of (multidimensional) well being, NOT just the absence of health

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How does health vary?

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Varies among
-culture (schizophrenia and weight loss)
-historically (homosexuality and drug use

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Scientific era, health definition

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-freedom from disease
-an increase of medical discoveries

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State of being

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Is health

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Wellness

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State of optimal wellbeing
-optimal multidimensional
-the way you feel about your health

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Disease

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Objective state of ill health
-scientific

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Illness

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Subjective and influenced by people and place
-socially

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Signs

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Objective
-observable

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Symptoms

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Subjective
-cannot directly observe

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Acute

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Short term illness

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Chronic

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Long term illness

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Impairment

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Loss of ability or abnormality

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Disability

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Restriction or lack of ability

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15
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Disability models

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Individual/medical and social

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Medical disability model

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-medicalization
-adjustment
-personal problem

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Social disability model

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-self help
-social change
-social oppression theory

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Medical modle

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Body as a machine
-conventional
-absence of disease

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Holistic model

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All parts of the person
-alternative
-recently integrated

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Wellness model

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Medical and holistic
-changing and evolving
-individual responsibility

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Socioecological

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Many factors affect health

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Eudamonistic model

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Actualization (ones true self and potential)
-illness prevents actualization

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Salutogenic model

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Origins of postive health
-facts that protect and better “good health”

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Conceptualizations of health

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-stability
-actualization
-stability and actualizations
-rescource
-unity

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Health as stability

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Maintenance of physical, logical, functional and social norms

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Health as actualization

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Actualization of human potential

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27
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Health as stability and actualization

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Realization of human potential thru goal directed behaviour

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Health as rescource

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Capacities to fulfil roles
-meet demands
-participate in everyday living

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29
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Health as unity

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Reflecting the whole person as process
-self transcendence

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30
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Medical approach

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Western thinking, medical intervention restores health

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Behavioural approach

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Environmental and human biological aspects of health incorporated
-responsibility for health on individual

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32
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Lalonde report

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Health determinants include lifestyle, environment, human biology, organization of healthcare

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Socioenviromental approach

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Health is closely tied to social structures
-poverty and unhealthy enviroments

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34
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What was the lalonde report criticized for

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Favouring high income, well educated, well employed Canadians
-victim blaming

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Ottawa charter

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Prerequisites for health
-such as peace, shelter and education
-beyond lifestyle, placing responsibility on society

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Epp report

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-enhancing coping
-reducing inequalities
-improving prevention

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Pre/medical times

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-Illness is sin
-Reliant on dietis for health

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1800s

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Medical theories and discoveries
-body is a machine

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39
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Virchow

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Father of modern pathology

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40
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John snow

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Cholera’s outbreak
-found out why

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41
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Louis Pasteur

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Germ theory

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42
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19th to 20th

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Discovering cures and focusing on science

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43
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Fallacy of specific etiology

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Disease is caused by one thing

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44
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Objectification

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Body is seen as broken parts that need to be fixed

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45
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Medical scientism

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Science most superior form of knowledge in treating illness and disease

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Reductionism

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Focus on physical and microbes
-downplaying social and psychological aspects of illness

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47
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Biological determinism

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Assumption that ones biology causes inferior
-social
-economic
-health status

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Victim blaming

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Blaming the paitents behaviours for illnesses and diseases

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49
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Thomas McKeown

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Agriculture and better living contributes to better health (NOT MEDICINE)

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50
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Who began looking at the other models of health (social model of health)

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Thomas McKeown

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Three dimensions of social model of health

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-societal production and distribution of H+I
-social construction H+I
-social organization of Health Care

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Criticisms of social model

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-push for social change
-overemphasis of harm of medical approaches
-underestimation of individual responsibility

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53
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Structure

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Systems
-economic/political

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54
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Agency

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Human agency
-social interaction

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55
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Structural functionalism

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-society is a bunch of moving parts
-everyone has a specific job/role
-everyone NEEDS to do their role for society to function

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Assumptions of structural functionalism

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-good health and effective medical care are essential in society
-paitent: sick role
-paitent-physician relationship: hierarchical

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57
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Talcott Parsons (structural functionalism)

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This is the SICK ROLE
-being sick is deviant
-there are rights and responsibilities

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58
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The sick role rights

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-exempt from normal societal role/responsibilities
-due to illness

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Responsibilities of the sick role

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-get well
-seek health advice
-comply with treatment regimes

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Criticisms of sick role

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-only relevant to acute illness
-not relevant to illness and disability
-not necessarily consensus based

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Symbolic interactionalism

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-Focus is on agency
-subject to change
-reality is based on interactions with each other

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Assumptions of symbolic interactionalism

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-health and illness are social constructions
-what’s considered health or ill changes based on constructions

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63
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Medicalization

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Previously non medical ideas now medical
-medical marijuna

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64
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Deviance

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Differing from a norm or from accepted standards of a society

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65
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Criticisms of symbolic interactionalism

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-tends to focus on micro level, rather than contextual level
-more descriptive than explanatory

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Post modernism

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-there is no ONE truth
-only different knowledge that varies over time
-subjective
-many viewpoints

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Post modernism and healthcare

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-many choices avalible for treatments
-globalization
-internet informed ppl

68
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Health surveillance post modernism

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-people carry out their own surveillance and choose their own treatment
-power has shifted
-rejection of science

69
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Marxism

A

-materialism
-oppressing group vs controlling group
-physical well being + worldly possessions = value

70
Q

Social production of disease

A

-morbidity and mortality higher among individuals doing routine types of work

71
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Materialism

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Seeing illness in individualistic terms rather than social and environmental

72
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Feminism

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-power difference between genders
-research often done on males
-gendered division of labours in healthcare

73
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Critical race theory

A

-race differences in health status
-radicalized experience of both paitents and workers
-equity differences

74
Q

Post colonialism

A

Conflict over power, land and resources
-still exists

75
Q

Indigenous health

A

-death and illness assosciated with poverty and inadequate standards of living
-systemic structured racism

76
Q

Social marketing

A

Commercial marketing principles to advance public good
-tackling poverty

77
Q

Traditional methods to influence behaviours

A

Education and policy

78
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Marketing principles

A

Research and evaluation

79
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The four P’s

A

Product, Price, Place, Promotion

80
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Product

A

Tangible (services and practices) and intangible (environmental protection and energy conservation)

81
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Price

A

What must the consumer do to obtain the product
- is it worth it

82
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Place

A

-way it reaches the consumer
-bathroom signs

83
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Promotion

A

Use of advertising, public relations etc
-communication efforts

84
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Public’s

A

External and internal groups

85
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Partnerships

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Other groups to partner with
-engage social marketing program

86
Q

Policy

A

Support behaviour changes

87
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Purse strings

A

Need to seek funding through grants

88
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Life course

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Understanding a persons life
-beginning with an event history

89
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Cohort

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Group of persons born at same historical time
-experience particular social changes
-at the same age

90
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Life event

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-significant occurrence involving abrupt change
-long lasting effects

91
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Trajectory

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-long term patterns
-multiple turning points and transitions

92
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Turning point

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-major change occurs in life trajectory
-lasting change
-obvious only after time passes

93
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Transition

A

-occurs with trajectories
-changes in role or status
Example: starting school, getting married

94
Q

Transition may be a turning point if

A

-followed by crisis
-conflict
-non typical age

95
Q

British North American act

A

-gov role in health care is minimal
-split responsibilities between federal and provincial

96
Q

Federal government healthcare responsibilities

A

-quarantines
-refugee claimants
-treat First Nations and Inuit

97
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Flexner report

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A push toward biomedical model
-male dominated
-scientific based practice

98
Q

Tommy Douglas - Medicare

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Medical services financed with taxes
-administered publicly

99
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Medical care act

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Provincial medical insurance, meeting four criteria
-comprehensive
-universal
-portable
-publicly administered

100
Q

Why did the lalonde report emerge

A

People were dying despite medical interventions

101
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ALMA ata declaration

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Identified primary health care as key to health for all

102
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Canada health act

A

Provinces and territories must meet
5 criteria
2 provisions
2 conditions

103
Q

Provisions of Canada health act

A

-discourage financial contributions by paitents

104
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Conditions of the Canada health act

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-recognize federal payments
-provide information

105
Q

Public administration: Canada health act

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Program needs to be administer on non profit basis
-accountability

106
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Comprehensiveness: Canada health act

A

Program must cover all medically necessary services

107
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Universality: Canada health act

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Every permanent resident is entitled to receive insured health care services

108
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Portability: Canada health act

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Provinces and territories must cover citizens when they are temporarily absent from their provincial residence in Canada

109
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Accessibility : Canada health act

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Reasonable access to services cannot be obstruction
-by discrimination
-or financial issues

110
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Role of governments in healthcare

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-health care financing
-administers health care services
-provide insurance

111
Q

Health promotion

A

Enables people to increase their control over their own health
-and to improve health

112
Q

Determinants of health

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Things that affect peoples ability to have good health/health services
Indivudal and social factors that influence a populations health

113
Q

Upstream vs downstream

A
114
Q

Systemic racism

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Whiteness and white superiority become embedded in the policies of Canadian institutions

115
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Whiteness

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System that advantages euro Canadians over BIPOC

116
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Settler society

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Societies rooted in western traditions

117
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Health indicators

A

-used to measure health
Direct or indirect

118
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Direct health indicators

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Measuring blood pressure, respirations, heart rate
-disease rates, mortality rates

119
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Indirect indicators of health

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Social development, education levels, poverty indicators

120
Q

Self rated health is considered to be

A

More reliable when indicating health status

121
Q

Considerations for gathering population data

A

-definition
-validity
-accessible
-utility

122
Q

Quantitative vs qualitative

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Qualitative: quality of experiences/interpretation, subjective
Quantitative: controlled measurements, objective (BMI)

123
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Epidemiology

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Study of patterns of disease in the population

124
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Health promotion related to epidemiology

A

Collaborative work to, improve health through various efforts

125
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Health surveillance related to epidemiology

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Collecting health data to track diseases and monitor
-promotes health

126
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Health protection in relation to epidemiology

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Protecting population from infectious disease and other health problems

127
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Population health assessment related to epidemiology

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Understanding the health of communities to create better services
-identify most effective outcomes

128
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Disease and injury prevention related to epidemiology

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Proving safe and health lifestyles to prevent illness and risk of infectious disease
-through investigation and preventative measures

129
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Emergency prediction prepardness and response in relation to epidemiology

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Planning for natural of human made disasters to minimize negative affects on health

130
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Purpose of epidemiology

A

Identify risk factors and then
-prevention and treatment of disease
-distribution of health problems in the population

131
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Life expectancy

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Crude indicator of population health
-life expectancy at birth

132
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Incidence

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Disease or health condition refers to the number of individuals in a population who develop the condition during a specified time period

133
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Prevalence

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Refers to the total number of indivudals in the population who ha e the condition at a particular time

134
Q

New people being diagnosed and entering the vessel is an example of…

A

Incidence

135
Q

Indivudals with disese who die and leave the vessel is an example of…

A

Mortality

136
Q

Number of people at any one time in the vessel represents…

A

Prevalence

137
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Crude mortality rate

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Total deaths from any cause in a given year in a population

138
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Infant mortality rate

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Total deaths of infants in a given year in a population

139
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Potential years lost

A

Someone who dies earlier in life and how much longer they could have lived
-represents lost greater potential

140
Q

Three elements of the epidemiological triangle

A

-host
-agent
-environment

141
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Premise of the trans theoretical model of change

A

Behaviour change is an ongoing process not an event

142
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Assumptions of the trans theoretical model of change

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Indivudals have carrying levels of motivation of readiness to change

143
Q

Three assumptions of trans theoretical model of change

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-behaviour change is ongoing process not event
-varying levels of motivation
-varying information needs for each stage of change

144
Q

Spiral pattern

A

-Precontemplation
-contemplation
-preparation
-action
-maintenance
-relapse

145
Q

Precontemplation

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-no intention to change
-unaware of problem
Not ready to change

146
Q

Contemplation

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-aware of problem
-thinking about overcoming
-but not committed to take action

147
Q

Preparation

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-prepared for action
-intending to take action in the near future

148
Q

Action

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-modifies their behaviour in order to overcome their problem
-requires time and commitment

149
Q

Maintenance

A

-works to prevent relapse
-can last for six months to lifetime
-a continuation of change

150
Q

Relapse

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Resumption of old behaviours

151
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Experiential process

A

-consciousness raising
-dramatic relief
-self reevaluation
-social liberation

152
Q

Behavioural processes

A

-counterconditioning
-contingency management
-self liberation
-stimuli’s control

153
Q

Experiential process : consciousness raising

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Inc information about self and problem
-why change could be helpful

154
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Experiential process: dramatic relief

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Emotional arousal, experiencing and expressing feelings

155
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Experiential process: self reevaluation

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Assessing how one feels and thins about oneself

156
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Experiential process: social liberation

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Increasing alternatives for non problem behaviours avalible in society

157
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Behavioural processes: self liberation

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Choosing and committing to an act

158
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Behavioural processes: counter conditioning

A

Substituting alternatives for problem behaviours

159
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Behavioural processes: stimuli’s control

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Avoiding stimuli that elicits problem behaviour

160
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Behavioural processes: reinforcement management

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Rewarding oneself or being rewarded by other

161
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Self efficacy

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Belief about ones own competence and ability to self regulate

162
Q

High level of self efficacy

A

More likely to initiate and maintain the behaviour

163
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Low level of self efficacy

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Less likely to initiate and maintain the behaviour

164
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Decisonal balance

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Weighing the pros and cons of changing behaviours
-helps predict a persons stages of change

165
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Population health approach

A

-measured by health status indicators
-address health inequities