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What determines health?

What determines health?. Health 2 R. Fielding. Health 2. Learning Objectives: Evaluate common human activities that significantly influence health Adapt these to your own experience Advocate a solution to the inconsistencies you identify between the first two learning objectives.

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What determines health?

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  1. What determines health? Health 2 R. Fielding

  2. Health 2 Learning Objectives: • Evaluate common human activities that significantly influence health • Adapt these to your own experience • Advocate a solution to the inconsistencies you identify between the first two learning objectives.

  3. What determines health? • Is individual behaviour or social class important? • place of birth • gender • family income • education • activity level • diet • smoking

  4. Is it just up to individuals? • housing. • food availability, accessibility, labeling. • protection from unhealthy advertising. • environmental protection • opportunity for work & adequate income. • control over one’s circumstances

  5. Why are individuals implicated? • Governments can avoid addressing structural issues, such as housing supply or unemployment. • Current models of disease see the individual as the unit of pathology, and pathology focuses on biological level only. • Hence, responsibility for health becomes the individual’s and not the state’s.

  6. Focus on intervention is at the individual, curative level, not the group preventive level. In HK 90% of the health budget goes to the HA, only 10% to the DoH. • Macro-economic models perpetuate this. • Individuals “regulate” themselves, carry the cost, and take the blame.

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