HSS 3103 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Speak Easily, Asthma, Headache

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Health Sciences
• Course: HSS 3103
• Professor: Jeff Jutai

Document Summary

Caregiving and family issues: role of the family in health and healthcare. Precipitating, predisposing, and contributory factor in the etiology, care, and treatment of chronic illness and disability. Precipitating: some family factors can act as triggers to illness. Predisposing: can make you more susceptible to illness (greater risk) Contributing: may contribute to illness (accelerate, decelerate, monitoring) Much of our early knowledge came from national and regional surveys. Very few studies using longitudinal or intergenerational analyses of family health patterns and practices: family health and illness behaviour. The family tends to be involved in the decision-making and therapeutic process at every stage of a member"s illness, from diagnosis to treatment and recovery. The family unit plays a pivotal role in determining: Whether care should be provided by the family at home. Efforts to treat illness and promote good health my often con ict with behaviour patterns and attitudes in the home.