HLTA03H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Heredity, Thrifty Phenotype, Prenatal Development
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Tutorials start the week of january 22nd, they will cover content from lectures 1 and 2. Discuss individual determinants of health (e. g. age, sex, heredity) Introduce and familiarize ourselves to theoretical frameworks of individual determinants. This is because of micro and macro interactions over your life that affect health. The chart below (source: warwick-booth, cross & lowcock, 2012)* shows important periods of development over age. An application of this, for instance, is to interpret how age periods affect health. Facts about the human body differ between men and women, beyond just physical anatomy. Some differences between men and women: on average, women say 7000 words per day, where men say 2000. It is important not to misconstrue sex and gender. Sex is categorized as male or female, and is divided based on reproductive organs. Gender, itself too can be a determinant of health, refers to socially constructed roles and traits, and how an individual identifies with these roles and traits.
