Health Sciences 2250A/B Chapter Notes - Chapter 5-8: Kelly Lee, Neoliberalism, Tacit Knowledge
2 Nov 2015
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Health promo textbook chapter 5, 6, and 7. In most fields of professional practise, often a lag between emergence of innovation and integration into professional actions. Ecological approach offers a research and action framework that emphasizes the complex interactions between people, groups, and their environments. Not like traditional ecology, more socio-ecological in nature, focuses more on social, organizational and cultural components of the environment. People focused with regards to environment: physical, social, and cultural. Remerged in public health with who"s european regional office presenting conceptualization of health in mid 1980s. Importance of environmental determinants of health and ecological approaches in promotion population health. Intimidating, so psychologists stratified environment into micro, meso, exo and macro systems. Moos proposed a four-strata classification: physical settings, organizational factors, human aggregate factors and social climate. Draw concepts from behaviour analysis (sociology and anthropology) to show how environment influences adoption and maintenance. Promoting healthy living and health supportive environments: inception of a possibility.
