HLTA03H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Health Equity, Social Mobility, The Who

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Causes; causes of the causes; webs) of causation; tapestries of causation. Determinants of health: general terms used to describe the proximal and distal factors that influence health: micro; ie. eating habits, meso; ie. family dynamics, macro; ie. health care system. Health inequality: differences in health status or in distribution of health determinants between different population groups. For example: differences in mortality rates between people from different social classes. Health inequity: the uneven distribution of health care hat is unnecessary and unavoidable, unjust, unfair - this has to do with social injustice. Models used to understand and explain social inequalities in health. Lifestyle and behavioural model: biological and social selection model. 2: social causation/ psychosocial model, political economy of health model, eco-social model. Personal health comes from genetic heritage, biology, and physiology. Fails to recognize evidence that social position almost always precedes ill health. Fails to recognize that directional weight of causality is not equal.

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