Health Sciences 4250A/B Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Disability-Adjusted Life Year, Population Health, Medical Investigation

• School: Western University
• Department: Health Sciences
• Course: Health Sciences 4250A/B
• Professor: Jeannie Samuel

Document Summary

Reading 1: on the relationship between individual and population health. Current drawbacks of current views of individual and population health is the idea that they are both absolute and independent of each other. There work with one another as an individual"s life course is shaped by the community surrounding it, so our health also depends on the health of those around us. New, fashionable term in the medical field. Although it involves non-individual health, individual health is meant to compliment it. The binary approach of seeing individual and population health as separate has played a role in differentiating public health from personal medical care. This dichotomy is also responsible for the difference in public health ethics vs. clinical ethics. This dichotomy can be traced back to individualism to collectivism in social sci. The point of this article: it is impossible to identify or define individual or population health without informative contextualization within the other (you need both to understand both)