HLTH352 Chapter Notes - Chapter 7: Health Belief Model, Health Promotion, Health Canada
15 Feb 2018
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Hlth 352 unit 7 health status and healthcare transitions. A multi-dimensional concept involving interrelationships among a number of dynamic human processes, social structures, and social policies. Individual genetic, bio, physical, psych, and social dimensions: social and physical environment, lifestyle factors, the healthcare system (physician and hospital care, public policies and private insurance plans coverage, payment and access. Who defines health as the absence of symptoms of illness or signs of disease; the presence of wellbeing and a sense of being healthy; and the capacity to preform adls and to function with some degree of independence. Stability and changes in health is not just a bio/medical process it"s a sig(cid:374)ifi(cid:272)a(cid:374)t so(cid:272)ial process. Interaction of agency, personal history, social conditions, and the social construction of health. Models of health and hc several interrelated models of health and hc in canada: not completely distinct from one another, they are ideal types, and there are variants of these models.
