HSCI 120 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Heteronormativity, Social Capital, Health Promotion
23 Sep 2017
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Public health tends to be theorized based on social theories. Ability to act in the world has constraints, some more than others. A lot of health promotion stresses individual behaviours, like choice making, through things like educational campaigns, to try to get people to make different choices. Institutions: religion, marriage, education, gender, etc. all help form social structures. They are pervasive because, as members of society, we are surrounded by social structures, from informal small group settings (family, friends) to formal larger group settings (workplaces, public agencies) They are enduring because these structures existed when we were born, and most likely will exist when we die and persist over generations. They are largely invisible in the sense that we generally cannot see them in physical setting,s but rather we experience them in all levels of society. Distal : national and global economies, levels of development, political organization, system of governance, legislation, public policies, education system, health care services organization, housing.
