HSS 1101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Cardiovascular Disease

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Health Sciences
• Course: HSS 1101
• Professor: N/ A

Document Summary

Death due to sieves: infectious & chronic. Decreased morbidity (not death, poor health) and mortality rates (death, mortality. Health as wellness: putting quality into years. Characterized by illness or ability to adapt. Health is not black and white, it is constantly changing. Achieving high level in each dimension of health. Optimization is achieved when we nd a passion or sense of happiness in life. Social health, intellectual health, emotional health, environmental health, Health promotion; educational, organizational, environmental & nancial support. Primary prevention: doing something when you have no symptoms, Person is free of disease/illness and still perform activities to optimize wellness. Secondary prevention: suffering from mild symptoms, no stress of immediate mortality; halt progression. The focus here to make sure our body is still functional. Androcentricity: research used to be male biased; this is not valid due to how biologically different both genders are. Leads to double standards to sex insensitivity to overgeneralization.