Health and Wellness Challenges Barriers which cause health and wellness challenges: Knowledge Barrier – Lack of knowledge leading to failure to detect when there is a problem (symptoms) Architectural Barrier – Physical disability preventing individual to be physically able to get certain checkups Attitude Barrier – Physical disability which causes individual to neglect other possible health problems that can come upon them Peer Pressure – Being influenced by the members of our peer group to do things that harm our bodies Solution to avoid barriers and challenges: Health Literacy – Having sufficient reading and comprehension skills to be able to understand how to avoid health problems along with understanding what doctors explain about diagnosis and treatment Disciplines: Disciplines: Focus Regarding Health and Wellness Key Terms Social practices: The activities • Sociologists are concerned with the social practices and behaviors of people in involved and the structure of the society. groups • How strong the health promotion perspective is in Medical Intervention Model: people’s lives is very important We do not need to worry about • Peer pressure is a societal problem which may lead to our health because doctors can individuals harming their bodies because of wanting to cure us if we fall ill fit in. Health Promotion Perspective: We must create a healthy lifestyle for ourselves to reduce the likelihood of becoming ill Domestic Scale Culture: Small • Anthropologists view focuses on the cultural aspect of the problem. How large a culture is as what factors affect kinship based society where the distribution of goods is it. organized on a household bias • Domestic scale cultures have an overall healthier rate than modern industrial societies. Smaller cultures have less cohesion, which means less to worry about. • It is said that more cohesion in larger cultures leads to more stress, which causes more illnesses and diseases (heart attacks from stress) Clinical Psychology: Individual • Psychologists take on the role of focusing on the factors rather than societal individual rather than what is around him/her. factors that best explain why • This branch of psychology is called clinical psychology which revolves around the way one behaves and studies people become ill mental illnesses. Health care systems: Canada United States Universal Two Tier • Universal healthcare • Only the elderly and very poor have access to public health coverage • Equal access to everyone • Everyone else must pay for their own health care Questions: 1. Do you think our system of universal health care is taken advantage of since it is being paid for? 2. If we had a two-­‐tier system, do you think it would affect the decisions this family is making to keep their family member on life support? 3. Which type of barrier is involved in this situation? 4. Which social scientist (anthropologist, psychologist, sociologist) would be most interested in this article’s issue? Why?