HLTA02H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Ecological Fallacy, Ecological Health, Health Geography
2 May 2019
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Culture and meanings of health exploring the contributions of social anthropology. Models of health in health studies: lay perspectives, biomedical, behavioural/lifestyle, holistic, psychosocial, social, and societal, ecological and socioecological. Articles: the babies who nap in sub-zero temperatures, uniquely korean household worry, how to avoid getting hit by air in italy. Important insights into the social construction of health, illness, and healthcare/healing: encompasses social anthropology as well because it is a sub-set of that. Culture is an important determinant of health. Informs assumptions about the body and causes of illness. Illness narratives: shape how we perceive and communicate our needs, health, illnesses, etc, shape our thoughts on who should communicate with healthcare providers, shape our beliefs about what constitutes appropriate care, when to seek it out. Holistic health and a complex web of causation. Illness social, lived experience of symptoms and suffering, and associated health seeking behaviours for treatments and cures. Social experience of illness rooted in cultural interpretations, meanings.
