HLTA02H3 Lecture : Lecture note 2
16 Dec 2011
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Health policy and the canadian health care system. Workplace risks: people who work in the hospital(nurses doctors) tend to be more exposed to sickness and injuries. They tend to talk about more about health issues. They tend to go and visit the doctor. Women who attends university waits longer to have a child. Brief background on health care: germ theory of disease, stethoscope, clinical thermometer, hypodermic syringe. Medical schools standardized first nations are 20 percent more likely to die in heat attacks. Medicine;s central importance arose during the late 19th century. The mechanistic individual conception of disease relies on evidence, evidence based approach to health in canada and north. America things like a body can be repaired , separate entities that led to a division of labor in the med profession things like disease as an alteration that needs to be fixed. Allopathic medicine: disease can be treated by pharmaceutical drugs. Causes of disease lie in individual lifestyle and behaviours.
