PSYC 3125 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Nuclear Weapon, Cortisol, Social Capital

• School: York University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 3125
• Professor: Kate Harper

Document Summary

Health: a state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease and illness, lacks mentioning environmental, occupational, spiritual, and gender differences in health. Determinants of health: income and social status, social support networks, education and literacy, employment/working conditions, social environments, physical environments, personal health practices & coping skills, healthy child development, biology and genetic endowment, health services, gender, culture. Social epidemiology (study of how social position and context in uence human health) 4 characteristics of social epidemiology: population level perspective, social context of behaviour (why do young girls smoke?, relies on multilevel analysis, takes a developmental, life course perspective. Social conditions, prevailing attitudes, entrenched beliefs are all important considerations. Doesn"t get to the root of the cause and addresses only a small population. Fails to understand human behaviour (what people do is shaped by norms of the group)