SOSC 1801 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Food Security, Migraine, Social Exclusion
30 Nov 2015
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Not merely the absence of disease or illness but complete physical and mental social well being. Functional health (sander kelman) the state of being required to be able to do your everyday activities/ functions. Health: access to and our basic material and non-material resources that sustain or are required to good health/ life. A natural entity that can be identified by bodily signs: rapid heart beat, physical discomfort sore leg, migraine, fever, blood pressure. Diseases are defined by a doctor, medical professor, someone with a phd. Cultural constructed can be interpreted differently. Equal, yet different forms of healing formerly trained medical doctors who"s practiced the scientific approach to healing. Nebulous concept links between individual pain and distress to large social events, structural events immediate suffering after social violence: ex. Poverty: poor sterilization, abuse by parents/relationships domestic violence, young aboriginal children taken away from residential schools.
