SOC 104 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: World Health Organization, Universal Health Care, Social Class

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 104
• Professor: Laura Thrasher

Document Summary

Healthcare as a major social institution in canada. Social institution a set of organized beliefs and rules that establishes how a society will attempt to meet its basic social needs. Family and education are examples social institutions: healthcare in canada, universal healthcare system, central to canadian society, hearts and mind. Part 1: sociology of health and social determinants of health. Health: not a static concept, complicated thinking about health, not simply the absence of illness and disease, not simply individual (genetics, biology or individual behaviours, health is grounded in the context of lives. The life chances we have health as an ability to cope and change within the environment. State of physical, mental and social well being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity (who constitution) The extent to which an individual or group is able to realize aspirations and satisfy needs and to change or cope with the environment.