Prior To Midterm Flashcards
What is health?
-varies
-whole of body
-meaningful when we don’t have
-multidimensional
WHO definition of health
State of (multidimensional) well being, NOT just the absence of health
How does health vary?
Varies among
-culture (schizophrenia and weight loss)
-historically (homosexuality and drug use
Scientific era, health definition
-freedom from disease
-an increase of medical discoveries
State of being
Is health
Wellness
State of optimal wellbeing
-optimal multidimensional
-the way you feel about your health
Disease
Objective state of ill health
-scientific
Illness
Subjective and influenced by people and place
-socially
Signs
Objective
-observable
Symptoms
Subjective
-cannot directly observe
Acute
Short term illness
Chronic
Long term illness
Impairment
Loss of ability or abnormality
Disability
Restriction or lack of ability
Disability models
Individual/medical and social
Medical disability model
-medicalization
-adjustment
-personal problem
Social disability model
-self help
-social change
-social oppression theory
Medical modle
Body as a machine
-conventional
-absence of disease
Holistic model
All parts of the person
-alternative
-recently integrated
Wellness model
Medical and holistic
-changing and evolving
-individual responsibility
Socioecological
Many factors affect health
Eudamonistic model
Actualization (ones true self and potential)
-illness prevents actualization
Salutogenic model
Origins of postive health
-facts that protect and better “good health”
Conceptualizations of health
-stability
-actualization
-stability and actualizations
-rescource
-unity
Health as stability
Maintenance of physical, logical, functional and social norms
Health as actualization
Actualization of human potential
Health as stability and actualization
Realization of human potential thru goal directed behaviour
Health as rescource
Capacities to fulfil roles
-meet demands
-participate in everyday living
Health as unity
Reflecting the whole person as process
-self transcendence
Medical approach
Western thinking, medical intervention restores health
Behavioural approach
Environmental and human biological aspects of health incorporated
-responsibility for health on individual
Lalonde report
Health determinants include lifestyle, environment, human biology, organization of healthcare
Socioenviromental approach
Health is closely tied to social structures
-poverty and unhealthy enviroments
What was the lalonde report criticized for
Favouring high income, well educated, well employed Canadians
-victim blaming
Ottawa charter
Prerequisites for health
-such as peace, shelter and education
-beyond lifestyle, placing responsibility on society
Epp report
-enhancing coping
-reducing inequalities
-improving prevention
Pre/medical times
-Illness is sin
-Reliant on dietis for health
1800s
Medical theories and discoveries
-body is a machine
Virchow
Father of modern pathology
John snow
Cholera’s outbreak
-found out why
Louis Pasteur
Germ theory
19th to 20th
Discovering cures and focusing on science
Fallacy of specific etiology
Disease is caused by one thing
Objectification
Body is seen as broken parts that need to be fixed
Medical scientism
Science most superior form of knowledge in treating illness and disease
Reductionism
Focus on physical and microbes
-downplaying social and psychological aspects of illness
Biological determinism
Assumption that ones biology causes inferior
-social
-economic
-health status
Victim blaming
Blaming the paitents behaviours for illnesses and diseases
Thomas McKeown
Agriculture and better living contributes to better health (NOT MEDICINE)
Who began looking at the other models of health (social model of health)
Thomas McKeown
Three dimensions of social model of health
-societal production and distribution of H+I
-social construction H+I
-social organization of Health Care
Criticisms of social model
-push for social change
-overemphasis of harm of medical approaches
-underestimation of individual responsibility
Structure
Systems
-economic/political
Agency
Human agency
-social interaction
Structural functionalism
-society is a bunch of moving parts
-everyone has a specific job/role
-everyone NEEDS to do their role for society to function
Assumptions of structural functionalism
-good health and effective medical care are essential in society
-paitent: sick role
-paitent-physician relationship: hierarchical
Talcott Parsons (structural functionalism)
This is the SICK ROLE
-being sick is deviant
-there are rights and responsibilities
The sick role rights
-exempt from normal societal role/responsibilities
-due to illness
Responsibilities of the sick role
-get well
-seek health advice
-comply with treatment regimes
Criticisms of sick role
-only relevant to acute illness
-not relevant to illness and disability
-not necessarily consensus based
Symbolic interactionalism
-Focus is on agency
-subject to change
-reality is based on interactions with each other
Assumptions of symbolic interactionalism
-health and illness are social constructions
-what’s considered health or ill changes based on constructions
Medicalization
Previously non medical ideas now medical
-medical marijuna
Deviance
Differing from a norm or from accepted standards of a society
Criticisms of symbolic interactionalism
-tends to focus on micro level, rather than contextual level
-more descriptive than explanatory
Post modernism
-there is no ONE truth
-only different knowledge that varies over time
-subjective
-many viewpoints