Week 2 Flashcards
Health state vs health status
health state: present state of health of individuals
health status: characteristic of healthiness/unhealthy
How is population health measured?
- HUI
- health assets
- morbidity
- mortility
- quality of life
- sense of coherence
- health status self survey
- life expectancy
difference between individual health and population health
individual health:
-health of individuals/absence of illness and disease.
Population health: cares for the health of the whole population
- address inequities between groups
How do you measure wellness?
- psychological
- spiritual
- emotional
- intellectual
- social
What is wellness?
sense of healthiness
physical/emotional wellbeing
What is sense of coherence
that everything will urn out okay and you can somewhat predict the outcomes.
Population health gets info from?
From individuals, but the level of analysis is the population
Why do health, illness and disease change overtime?
-scientific knowledge changes
-disease change
-the distribution of disease in a population changes
-new ideas about health are built on other existing ideas
-cultures and societies change
-moral framework are imposed on health
Example of cultures/new ideas/moral framework
Humoural theory, yin and yang
What is the humoural theory
-body is a microcosm of the world
-main idea was to balance the elements (hot,dry,wet,and cold) with the 4 humours (black bile, bile, blood, phlegm)
-only for the elite, in ancient greece
What are the paradigms: ways of viewing the world?
-structural functionalist
-conflict
-symbolic interactionist
-feminist
-sociology of the body
-indigenous
Health as a social construct
viewed as two fold. Understanding society and culture will help us better understand health and illness, vice versa.
Sickness as a social construct
set of behavioural expectations about how a sick person is to behave set in our system.
people learn how to react and behave in response
Sick role by Talcolm
- you are exempt from responsibility of illness
- exempt from regular role responsibility
duties:
try to get better
cooperate with process
What is structural functionalist paradigm
-views society as a harmonious system that are interconnected to institutions to maintain order and stability.
What does structural functionalism study?
studies human behaviour with an empirical approach attempting to discover the effects of social structure on behaviour
What is the conflict paradigm
capitalist society composed of competing interest groups in a constant power struggle with one another
-political economy
health illness and disease as professional constructs
Symbolic interactions
focuses on the interactions of individual who produce the construct of society.
(assignment 1)
Feminist paradigm
western social thinking has been generalized by “malestream” thinking
relationship between gender and health is complex influenced by social factors
focuses on oppression of women
advantages to men associated with patriarchy do not benefit all men
levels of feminist paradigm
societal level
-how patriarchy affects men and women’s health differently
individual
- how gender is produced and reproduced in women’s relationships
body paradigm
embodiment an essential part of our experience and human perception of society and culture happens through bodies
-focuses on how society and social relationships both shape and are shaped by the human body
Life course perspective
our past experiences affect our current and future lives
an age graded sequence of multiple stages or phases and roles
