Week 2

Question 1

Health state vs health status

Answer 1

health state: present state of health of individuals

health status: characteristic of healthiness/unhealthy

Question 2

How is population health measured?

Answer 2

1. HUI
2. health assets
3. morbidity
4. mortility
5. quality of life
6. sense of coherence
7. health status self survey
8. life expectancy

Question 3

difference between individual health and population health

Answer 3

individual health:
-health of individuals/absence of illness and disease.

Population health: cares for the health of the whole population
- address inequities between groups

Question 4

How do you measure wellness?

Answer 4

1. psychological
2. spiritual
3. emotional
4. intellectual
5. social

Question 5

What is wellness?

Answer 5

sense of healthiness
physical/emotional wellbeing

Question 6

What is sense of coherence

Answer 6

that everything will urn out okay and you can somewhat predict the outcomes.

Question 7

Population health gets info from?

Answer 7

From individuals, but the level of analysis is the population

Question 8

Why do health, illness and disease change overtime?

Answer 8

-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

Question 9

Example of cultures/new ideas/moral framework

Answer 9

Humoural theory, yin and yang

Question 10

What is the humoural theory

Answer 10

-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

Question 11

What are the paradigms: ways of viewing the world?

Answer 11

-structural functionalist
-conflict
-symbolic interactionist
-feminist
-sociology of the body
-indigenous

Question 12

Health as a social construct

Answer 12

viewed as two fold. Understanding society and culture will help us better understand health and illness, vice versa.

Question 13

Sickness as a social construct

Answer 13

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

Question 14

Sick role by Talcolm

Answer 14

1. you are exempt from responsibility of illness
2. exempt from regular role responsibility

duties:
try to get better
cooperate with process

Question 15

What is structural functionalist paradigm

Answer 15

-views society as a harmonious system that are interconnected to institutions to maintain order and stability.

Question 16

What does structural functionalism study?

Answer 16

studies human behaviour with an empirical approach attempting to discover the effects of social structure on behaviour

Question 17

What is the conflict paradigm

Answer 17

capitalist society composed of competing interest groups in a constant power struggle with one another

-political economy
health illness and disease as professional constructs

Question 18

Symbolic interactions

Answer 18

focuses on the interactions of individual who produce the construct of society.

(assignment 1)

Question 19

Feminist paradigm

Answer 19

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

Question 20

levels of feminist paradigm

Answer 20

societal level
-how patriarchy affects men and women’s health differently

individual
- how gender is produced and reproduced in women’s relationships

Question 21

body paradigm

Answer 21

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

Question 22

Life course perspective

Answer 22

our past experiences affect our current and future lives

an age graded sequence of multiple stages or phases and roles