Health Sciences 1001A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Disparate Impact, Petrochemical Industry, Persistent Organic Pollutant

• School: Western University
• Department: Health Sciences
• Course: Health Sciences 1001A/B
• Professor: Jessica Polzer

Document Summary

Life style effects are dominant in western socities, but sdh are proven to have bigger impact. Individualism is a way of thinking of the world in a way where we explain things that happen inside an individual and nothing else. The two picards list, ones individual stuff like don"t smoke and the other is unrealistic and things an individual cant control like picking your parents. Idea of perspective and how everyones perspective is bias, and how their can be multiple perspectives and not just two sides to the story. Social perspective on heath looks at social systems/conditions, the health of groups and populations, and the relationship between macro-level structures and micro-level experiences of health, doesn"t take path of least resistant. Lifestyle is a dominant discourse on health of na, Social model of health has three main components to it: societal production and distribution of health and illnesses, social construction of health and illness, and social organization of health care.