HSCI 340 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Social Epidemiology, Health Promotion, Collective Action
28 Feb 2020
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The study of distribution and determinants of health-related states or events in specified populations. The application of this study is to the control health problems. Prestige model for understanding health and disease until the end of the 1990s. The triad consists of an external agent, a susceptible host, and an environment that brings the host and agent together. In this model, disease results from the interaction between the agent and the susceptible host in an environment that supports transmission of the agent from a source to that host (eg. chickenpox) Davidson says individual health relates to things acting in or on that individuals" characteristic features . Frequent attention to characteristics of host that might increase or decrease their risk. By the 1980s, dissatisfaction rose with the limits of traditional epidemiology. Ziegler & krieger: theory was implicit and underdeveloped. Lack of interrogation of the role of social factors in shaping health and disease.
