HLTHAGE 1AA3- Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 50 pages long!)
30 Nov 2017
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Definition of illness does not usually take place in the person"s house, rely on medicine. Not the same as health sciences , rather the social study of health. Focus on overall wellbeing rather than a narrow emphasis on the processes and components of a person"s body. either - groups and communities also have health status. State of complete physical, mental, and social well being. needs met and has the capacity to meet those needs. Health studies is something that is social in nature, the focus is not merely individual. Draws from ealy who definitions of health as not merely the absence of disease but a. A healthy person is content, physically well, at a good place in their lives, has their basic. Because health and illness have social, political, cultural and economic dimensions beyond the biomedical perspective no single methodological approach can really understand these concepts. Consider why a neighbourhood"s levels of obesity have increased:
