Health Sciences 1002A/B Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Scientism, Louis Pasteur, Neoliberalism
30 Dec 2016
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Chapter 1: imagining health problems as social issues. Health sociology focuses on the social determinants of health and illness, such as income and education, the environment, and working conditions. Social patterns such as health status between women and men, poor and wealthy, immigrants and native born, aboriginal and non-aboriginal. Agency: the ability of people (individual and group) to influence their lives and the society in which they live. Biomedical model: micro-organisms caused disease by mono-causal model of disease, entering the body through air, water, food, and insect bites. Biopsychosocial model: a(cid:272)(cid:272)ou(cid:374)ts fo(cid:396) (cid:271)iologi(cid:272)al, psy(cid:272)hologi(cid:272)al, a(cid:374)d so(cid:272)ial fa(cid:272)to(cid:396)s i(cid:373)pli(cid:272)ated i(cid:374) a patie(cid:374)t(cid:859)s condition, focuses on individual patient for diagnosis, explanation, and treatment. Cartesian dualism: mind/body dualism, cartesian dualism, descartes, belief that mind and body are separate entities, disease in physical terms and ignore the psychological aspects. Class (social class: structured inequality, unequal distribution of power, wealthy, income, and status. Ecological model: considers interaction of social, economic, geographic, and environmental factors.
