HSCI 307 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Ethnography, Convenience Sampling, Thick Description

• School: Simon Fraser University
• Department: Health Sciences
• Course: HSCI 307
• Professor: Denise Z.

Document Summary

Intersectionality: the ways in which race, gender, and class combine to influence population patterns of morbidity and mortality. Personal trouble: researchers seeks to understand the lived experience of disease how it affects individuals and their families. Enable us to understand important dimensions of health and illness, and can offer important feedback in the evaluation of public health policy. Public issue: u(cid:374)de(cid:396)sta(cid:374)d the a(cid:272)ts of history, culture, economics, and politics that shape our capacities to lead healthy lives. Local level: involve examining local bylaws (that enable/ restrict the location of fast food restaurants) National level: involve analyzing laws to restrict tobacco advertising. International level: we can see health as a public issue in that global macroeconomics, climate change, political conflict (war) Dual nature of disease: biologically and socially, that requires an understanding at the individual level of the body/mind, and at the public health level as it relates to health policy and sdoh.