HLTA03H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Systematic Review, Health Canada
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Measurement in health research examining physical activity. "a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being, and not just the absence of disease or illness" (who, 1948) Barbie was the role model that women looked at for beauty that changed their health habits. Many women and girls have tried to obtain the unrealistic beauty. Includes social, economic, and physical environmental factors that contribute to health. Mental health - think about relationship between physical and mental health. Age effects - linked to biological and social processes of aging specific to individuals. Example: varying rates of diseases across age groups. Period effects - external factors that equally affect all age groups at a particular calendar time. Example: environmental, social and economic factors e. g. war, famine, economic crisis. Cohort effects - variations resulting from the unique experience/exposure of a group of subjects (cohort) as they move across time. Example: birth cohort based on year of birth.