HLTA02H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Social Forces, Health Psychology, Norm (Social)
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Health geography: study of how space and place affect and represent health and health care. Medical anthropology: study of the bio-cultural and ecological aspects of health and health care. Health psychology: study of the cognitive and behavioural aspects of health and health care. Health economics: study of different ways of allocating resources for health with different outcomes. Health studies research uses quantitative and qualitative research methods: quantitative methods: statistics, census data, surveys, qualitative methods: interviews, focus groups, observation techniques, document analysis. Critical research emerged in the 1990s as something unique and broader. Involving communities as partners in research, developing a public approach: engaging with various publics can directly encourage social reform and change, might involve direct action and an activist approach. Thinking and acting outside the box : criticality involves the production of new ideas and approaches, even those that might seem radical and unconventional.
