HLTH 101 Study Guide - Final Guide: Individualism, Tippingpoint, Paternalism
14 Feb 2014
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More attention to disease (curing it) than health (promoting it: positive definitions (holistic, social models (eg. who, health canada, antonovsky, health is more than just the absence of disease, considers the whole person. Aaron antonovsky: salutogenesis: guide of our identification/understanding of the factors that protect and enhance good health, salutogenic model of health: origins of positive health, sense of coherence: the extent to which one has a pervasive, enduring through dynamic, feeling of confidence that ones environment is predictable and that things will work out as well as reasonably predicted . 3 components: comprehensibility making logical sense, they are ordered, consistent and structured, manageability: extent to which a person feels they can cope, meaningfulness: how much one feels that life makes sense, high soc less likely to feel stressed/tension, development of soc related to someone"s natural coping style, education, upbringing, social support, financial assets, soc highest in high social class.
