Physiology 2130 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Population Health
22 Feb 2016
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Theoretical perspective: focuses attention on different aspects of health, illness and the body. Raise questions about the type of factors that shape health and illness. Suggests the use of particular methods to gather information needed to understand health from a sociological perspective. Depending on the theoretical paradigm, health and illness have been characterized as: The conceptual representation of health embedded in the paradigm must be operationally defined or transformed into variables or precise indicators before we can actually measure the health of population. Good health isn"t complete present or completely absent. Good health is socially constructed and varies across cultures. From a life course perspective, our personal interpretation of the. Good health a concept that can be defined in a number of. Health is a multi-dimensional concept that is given meaning. Combined with the routine experience of a variety of symptomatic conditions. pain and disability associated with chronic illnesses such as arthritis.
