Health Sciences 1002A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Late Show Top Ten List, Safe Sex, Infant Mortality
14 Jul 2016
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Top 10 list [to being healthy] (picard: smoking, eating a balanced diet, being physically active, limiting stress, moderate drinking of alcohol, limit sun exposure, practice safer sex, getting a regular medical checkup, drive carefully. Lifestyle explanations of health are dominant in north american, western societies. However, research has consistently shown that social factors are better predictors of health than individual behaviours or lifestyles. Events occur as a result of the actions of an individual rather than the effects of society. Research has consistently shown that social factors are better predictors of health than individual behaviors or lifestyles, particular at the group or population level of analysis. Health and ill health are not distributed randomly, but vary according to economic and other social factors. Drastic declines in infant mortality rates since the 1930a. Change in the social conditions to promote health for entire groups of populations. Depends on position of viewer (point of view)
