SOCIOL 3G03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Fibromyalgia, Sick Role, Structural Functionalism
16 Jul 2018
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What is the difference btwn a health behaviour and an illness behaviour? a. b. Health behaviour: proactive behaviour - focused on disease prevention and staying healthy i. Illness behaviour: reactive behaviour - defining your state of health and actions taken to remedy illness. The role taken up as a chronically ill person. How this impacts how we think about and manage our identities. Re-evaluation of the self; how situations are going to be managed b. Benefits that people receive when they are sick. Health: a state of complete physical, social, and mental well-being, not merely the absence of diseases or infirmity. Health is a resource for everyday life, not the object of living. It is a positive concept emphasizing social and personal resources as well as physical capabilities. Illness: feeling of unsoundness, or the perception by someone that some problem exists. Focused more on the individual and their feelings/self-perception; subjective.
