HLTHAGE 1AA3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Menopause, Patient Protection And Affordable Care Act, Hobby Lobby

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Health, Aging and Society
• Course: HLTHAGE 1AA3
• Professor: Mat Savelli

Document Summary

Definition of illness does not usually take place in the person"s house, rely on medicine. Health is not simply a biological concept; personal, cultural, political, economic factors all. Health studies, as a discipline seeks to understand how these concepts are conceived. We are also concerned with how social factors affect our health. Not the same as health sciences , rather the social study of health. Focus on overall wellbeing rather than a narrow emphasis on the processes and components of a person"s body. either - groups and communities also have health status. State of complete physical, mental, and social well being. needs met and has the capacity to meet those needs. Health studies is something that is social in nature, the focus is not merely individual. Draws from ealy who definitions of health as not merely the absence of disease but a. A healthy person is content, physically well, at a good place in their lives, has their basic.