HLTH 101 Chapter Notes - Chapter all: Disability-Adjusted Life Year, Whitehall Study, Social Epidemiology
12 Oct 2016
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Varying outcomes associated with health fall under two main groups through choice (laying around of the couch watching video games all day) or through no fault of their own (environmental toxins) Some threats to health are behavioural (smoking or riding a bike without a helmet) The extent to which something posses a risk to us depends on our level of susceptibility and resilience. If you"re a middle aged women with a family history of breast cancer you are more susceptible to it. Conventional model of health and disease: assumes health-relevant outcomes are a consequence of the interaction between variables associated with vulnerability/resilience and biological and behavioural variables. Risk factor: health behaviours or environmental factors or even susceptibilities. In the early 20th century there came around a theory called health, disease, and life expectancy theory. Its message was that children, females the elderly and the frail are predisposed to poor health outcomes and thus ned to be shielded from emotional shocks.
