HLTA02H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Gerontology, World Health Organization, Medical Sociology
Health and Society
Chapter 1: Introduction to Critical Health Studies
HEALTH STUDIES: addresses health, illness & medicine through a
social science, humanities or interdisciplinary lens!
•The World Health Organization (WHO) defined health in its broader sense in its
1948 constitution as "a state of complete physical, mental, and social well-
being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity.”
•WELLBEING: meaningful state of life!
•HEALTH SCIENCES: A collection of disciplines that support and constitute
medicine. Disciplines based around:!
•Occupational categories: nursing, occupational therapy, pharmacy!
•Medical categories and basic science (often about aspects of the body)
including: anaesthesiology, toxicology, genetics, immunology and microbiology!
•Clinical Specialties (types of services): geriatrics, paediatrics, family practice,
critical care, and mental health care!
•HEALTH STUDIES is composed predominately of social science sub disciplines,
most notable being health sociology
•HEALTH SOCIOLOGY: study of the interactions and relationships between society
and health!
•HEALTH STUDIES encompasses the following 4 sub- disciplines:!
•Health Geography: study of how space and place affect and represent health
and health care!
•Medical Anthropology: study of bio-cultural and ecological aspects of health
and healthcare!
•Health Psychology: study of cognitive and behavioural aspects of health and
healthcare!
•Health Economics: study of different ways of allocating resources for health
with diff. outcomes !
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