Health Sciences 3071A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Social Inequality

• School: Western University
• Department: Health Sciences
• Course: Health Sciences 3071A/B
• Professor: Carla Silva

Document Summary

Determinants of health & disease lecture 2 notes from zoom. Socio-ecological model health: the context in which you live shapes your health, acknowledges global differences. Discussion question why is it so important to define health: so we can define healthy vs. unhealthy, but what does it mean to be healthy or unhealthy, everyone"s definition would be different. If someone is considered unhealthy, we, as hcps, can work to make them healthier. Intellectual empathy = the ability to connect reason/the intellect and emotion to examine both the wide scope of social inequality and the narrow scope of our beliefs, with the aim to. Key skills of intellectual empathy: understand that privilege is invisible . In what ways am i lucky: knowing that social identity is intersectional, using the model of cooperative reasoning (with others, not against, applying the principle of conditional trust (you are trustworthy, recognising our mutual vulnerability.