Psychology 2036A/B Chapter Notes - Chapter 10: Nervous System Disease, Historical Trauma, Built Environment
19 Dec 2017
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Chapter 10 from one to many: health on a large scale. The social ecological model: building on the biopsychosocial approach to understand big. Attempts to understand and improve individual health often fail because these larger systems are not considered. Individuals are complex enough without considering the many inter-related systems in which they exist. Social ecological model: a model acknowledging that the individual is influenced by a collection of larger, inter-related, and cumulative contexts, such as organizations, communities and government. Classic application of the model analyzing physical activity in schools by considering school board policies and societal pressures for academic achievement, as well as individual behaviour of children. Tracking health and illness at the population level. Epidemiology: the study of changing patterns of health and disease across populations and geographic areas. Concerned with the gathering and interpreting of information. Look at general patterns and find associations between exposure and disease: contaminants in the air to poorly handled disease.
