This document discusses the health effects of climate change from a sociological perspective. It identifies that there is near unanimous consensus that human-caused greenhouse gas emissions will change Earth's climate. Climate change poses the biggest global health threat of the 21st century, with direct threats including extreme weather and changes in disease patterns, and indirect threats to water and food security. A sociological view, as advocated by Ulrich Beck, recognizes that the risks of climate change deepen existing social inequalities and are unequally distributed based on factors like location, class, age, ethnicity, and gender. For healthcare workers, it is important to understand this unequal distribution of health impacts and develop integrated health strategies that consider social determinants of climate vulnerability
This document introduces the topic of sociology and the sociological imagination. It discusses how sociology examines common assumptions and looks beneath surface appearances to understand social patterns and issues. The sociological imagination allows people to link personal experiences to broader social contexts. It involves asking questions about historical, cultural, and structural influences. The document then applies these concepts to understandings of health and illness. It describes the biomedical model and some of its underlying assumptions, before providing a sociological critique that considers how history, culture, social structures, and power dynamics shape health in important ways beyond individual factors.
This document discusses how place influences health inequalities and outcomes. It explains that people living in rural, regional, and remote areas of Australia experience poorer health than those in major cities, including higher mortality rates and less access to health services. These differences are due to a combination of factors, but place has an important influence. Globalization and neoliberal policies have contributed to economic and social changes that negatively impact rural health, such as declining industries, rising unemployment, and reduced public services. While governments have invested in rural health, questions remain around appropriate service delivery models and how to best address ongoing inequalities.
This document discusses sociological approaches to understanding mental health and illness. It covers several key topics:
1) It examines lay understandings of health and illness and how sociologists make sense of how people experience illness using approaches like illness trajectories and biographical disruption.
2) It explores how mental illness is a significant social issue in Australia, affecting nearly half the population at some point.
3) It analyzes sociological perspectives on mental illness including labeling theory, which views it as a social process rather than individual pathology, and stigma theory, which examines how deviation from norms leads to a spoiled identity.
This document discusses how gender impacts health and identifies key differences in how women and men experience health and illness. It explains that women have a longer life expectancy than men due to behaviors linked to constructions of masculinity like smoking, drinking, and aggression. Women face different health hazards due to the sexual division of labor and patriarchy, which can increase stress levels. Medicalization also renders women's lives more subject to medical control, especially regarding reproductive health. The document argues that understanding gender relations is important for explaining health inequalities between women and men.
The Human Genome Project was an international research program that ran from 1990 to 2003 with the goal of mapping and discovering all estimated 20,000-25,000 human genes. It was completed in 2003 with the full sequencing of the human DNA. Since then, research has focused on finding genes linked to specific diseases and behaviors. While promising medical benefits, sociologists question the implications of reducing health to genetics and how knowledge may influence social inequality, control, and identity. Social scientists can contribute by critically analyzing assumptions, implications, and power dynamics of genetic technologies.
Third Space theory can be applied in the health industry to openly discuss issues like addictions, psychological problems, and family problems. It can also bring together people with similar health conditions to provide support. Third Space aims to make health centers feel more home-like. The theory may help explain social issues like poverty and exclusion, and could help reduce conflicts between cultures by closing gaps in language, values, and beliefs. Achieving Third Space requires mutual understanding, respect for different cultures, easy access to healthcare for indigenous people, education to reduce dropout rates, and training health professionals about indigenous cultures.
This document discusses healthcare occupations that operate outside of direct medical dominance, including allied health workers and complementary/alternative medicine (CAM) practitioners. It explains that allied health workers, though diverse, collectively support patient care but have faced constraints on their autonomy from the medically dominated healthcare system. CAM was historically the norm but faced challenges gaining legitimacy from biomedicine's rise in the late 19th century. Both allied health and CAM practitioners have struggled for professional recognition due to medical dominance maintaining control through subordination, limitation, exclusion and incorporation. Gender relations have also influenced their professionalization as roles dominated by women are more easily devalued. The document outlines some future directions including CAM potentially challenging medical dominance through growing public support, and allied health facing
This document discusses the health effects of climate change from a sociological perspective. It identifies that there is near unanimous consensus that human-caused greenhouse gas emissions will change Earth's climate. Climate change poses the biggest global health threat of the 21st century, with direct threats including extreme weather and changes in disease patterns, and indirect threats to water and food security. A sociological view, as advocated by Ulrich Beck, recognizes that the risks of climate change deepen existing social inequalities and are unequally distributed based on factors like location, class, age, ethnicity, and gender. For healthcare workers, it is important to understand this unequal distribution of health impacts and develop integrated health strategies that consider social determinants of climate vulnerability
This document introduces the topic of sociology and the sociological imagination. It discusses how sociology examines common assumptions and looks beneath surface appearances to understand social patterns and issues. The sociological imagination allows people to link personal experiences to broader social contexts. It involves asking questions about historical, cultural, and structural influences. The document then applies these concepts to understandings of health and illness. It describes the biomedical model and some of its underlying assumptions, before providing a sociological critique that considers how history, culture, social structures, and power dynamics shape health in important ways beyond individual factors.
This document discusses how place influences health inequalities and outcomes. It explains that people living in rural, regional, and remote areas of Australia experience poorer health than those in major cities, including higher mortality rates and less access to health services. These differences are due to a combination of factors, but place has an important influence. Globalization and neoliberal policies have contributed to economic and social changes that negatively impact rural health, such as declining industries, rising unemployment, and reduced public services. While governments have invested in rural health, questions remain around appropriate service delivery models and how to best address ongoing inequalities.
This document discusses sociological approaches to understanding mental health and illness. It covers several key topics:
1) It examines lay understandings of health and illness and how sociologists make sense of how people experience illness using approaches like illness trajectories and biographical disruption.
2) It explores how mental illness is a significant social issue in Australia, affecting nearly half the population at some point.
3) It analyzes sociological perspectives on mental illness including labeling theory, which views it as a social process rather than individual pathology, and stigma theory, which examines how deviation from norms leads to a spoiled identity.
This document discusses how gender impacts health and identifies key differences in how women and men experience health and illness. It explains that women have a longer life expectancy than men due to behaviors linked to constructions of masculinity like smoking, drinking, and aggression. Women face different health hazards due to the sexual division of labor and patriarchy, which can increase stress levels. Medicalization also renders women's lives more subject to medical control, especially regarding reproductive health. The document argues that understanding gender relations is important for explaining health inequalities between women and men.
The Human Genome Project was an international research program that ran from 1990 to 2003 with the goal of mapping and discovering all estimated 20,000-25,000 human genes. It was completed in 2003 with the full sequencing of the human DNA. Since then, research has focused on finding genes linked to specific diseases and behaviors. While promising medical benefits, sociologists question the implications of reducing health to genetics and how knowledge may influence social inequality, control, and identity. Social scientists can contribute by critically analyzing assumptions, implications, and power dynamics of genetic technologies.
Third Space theory can be applied in the health industry to openly discuss issues like addictions, psychological problems, and family problems. It can also bring together people with similar health conditions to provide support. Third Space aims to make health centers feel more home-like. The theory may help explain social issues like poverty and exclusion, and could help reduce conflicts between cultures by closing gaps in language, values, and beliefs. Achieving Third Space requires mutual understanding, respect for different cultures, easy access to healthcare for indigenous people, education to reduce dropout rates, and training health professionals about indigenous cultures.
This document discusses healthcare occupations that operate outside of direct medical dominance, including allied health workers and complementary/alternative medicine (CAM) practitioners. It explains that allied health workers, though diverse, collectively support patient care but have faced constraints on their autonomy from the medically dominated healthcare system. CAM was historically the norm but faced challenges gaining legitimacy from biomedicine's rise in the late 19th century. Both allied health and CAM practitioners have struggled for professional recognition due to medical dominance maintaining control through subordination, limitation, exclusion and incorporation. Gender relations have also influenced their professionalization as roles dominated by women are more easily devalued. The document outlines some future directions including CAM potentially challenging medical dominance through growing public support, and allied health facing
This document discusses Indigenous health inequalities in Australia and the role of ethnicity in health outcomes. It notes that Indigenous Australians experience much higher rates of illness and mortality than non-Indigenous Australians, with life expectancy being 10-11 years lower. It explores historical and structural factors like racism, low socioeconomic status, and underfunding of Indigenous health services that contribute to persistent health inequalities. The document also examines how migrant health varies according to length of stay, refugee status, and barriers to healthcare for some non-English speaking communities. It proposes cultural competence as an alternative to mainstream health services to better meet the needs of Australia's ethnically diverse population.
This document discusses social class and health inequalities. It outlines several explanations for health inequalities, including artefact, natural/social selection, cultural/behavioral, materialist/structuralist, and psychosocial explanations. However, most sociologists favor materialist/structuralist explanations that focus on poor living and working conditions rather than victim-blaming. Class is defined broadly as one's position in a system of inequality based on power, wealth and status. There are relationships between patterns of illness/mortality and social class, as working class populations experience poorer health due to living/working conditions and access to resources.
Shreejeet Shrestha provides an overview of sociology and its application in public health. Sociology developed from 19th century theoretical writings and emphasizes social structures and processes over individuals. Key concepts in sociology like social fabric, conflict, and social systems are highly relevant to public health. While psychology has traditionally dominated social sciences in public health, sociology is increasingly important for understanding large-scale social determinants of health like inequality, social capital, and health systems. Sociological methods involving both quantitative and qualitative data are valuable tools for public health research and evaluation.
The document discusses the biomedical and socio-medical models of health. It provides information on each model, including what they focus on, links to sociological approaches, and potential factors that can influence health. Students are tasked with creating a poster explaining and assessing the two models, highlighting their ideas with examples from the session. They will then present their posters and ideas to the group.
This document provides an overview of sociological approaches to health and disease. It discusses the sociological perspective and how sociology can be used as a tool to understand society and address problems. The sociological perspective invites us to examine the connections between individual behavior and broader social structures. Sociological data collection and theories enable authorities to plan appropriate healthcare. The document also discusses structural functionalism and conflict theories as two major sociological frameworks for understanding society, health, and social issues. Structural functionalism views society as a system of interconnected parts striving for equilibrium, while conflict theory sees society as characterized by inequality and competition over resources. Symbolic interactionism focuses on the subjective meanings individuals ascribe to their actions and symbols.
This document provides an introduction to medical sociology. It defines key concepts like sociology, society, group, community, role, culture, and social control mechanisms. Medical sociology studies the medical profession, relationship between medicine and the public, and role of social factors in disease. A society is a system of social relationships with compulsory membership and cooperation/conflict. Culture refers to learned behaviors acquired in a society through customs, beliefs and skills. Acculturation describes the diffusion of cultures with contact between groups. Social problems can threaten community welfare when affecting many individuals.
This document discusses whether health issues should be considered social problems. It defines a social problem as something that contradicts desired quality of life, is caused by multiple social factors, and requires social action to resolve. The document argues that health issues meet this definition as illnesses can reduce quality of life, have social causes like lifestyle and environment, and require changes to things like healthcare access and costs. It examines how classical perspectives and normative approaches view health and social problems. The conclusion is that health issues relate to the definition of a social problem due to how they can impact life and wider social factors must be addressed through actions like prevention and healthcare reform.
The document discusses definitions of health from a sociological perspective. It introduces absolute versus relative definitions of health and how health is socially constructed and can mean different things to different cultures and groups within society. It also briefly outlines biomedical and traditional models of health and how health is generally measured through morbidity and mortality rates.
Medical sociology and health service research - Journal of Health and social ...Jorge Pacheco
This document summarizes key findings from medical sociology research on health services and systems over the past 50 years. It discusses three main findings: 1) Health services in the US are unequally distributed based on gender, socioeconomic status, and race, contributing to health inequalities. 2) Social institutions reproduce these inequalities by enabling or constraining actions of providers and consumers. 3) The structure and dynamics of health care organizations shape quality, effectiveness and outcomes for different groups in communities. The authors conclude by discussing implications for future health policy and reform efforts.
KAFKAS ÜNİVERSİTESİ/KAFKAS UNIVERSITY
SOCIOLOGY
Course
LECTURE NOTES AND POWER POINT PRESENTATIONS
Prof.Dr. Halit Hami ÖZ
Kars, TURKEY
hamioz@yahoo.com
This document discusses social determinants of health and access to healthcare. It presents models showing that access to care is determined by biological/need variables, demographic variables, socioeconomic status, place of living, and social variables. It also discusses the concepts of equity versus equitability of access, and how inequitable access can lead to unjust health outcomes and violations of people's right to health and access to care. The document analyzes components like access, socioeconomic status, and social justice as principles of social determinants of health.
The sociological perspective:
• What is the sociological perspective? Direct and indirect relationships
• Establishing patterns
• The sociological imagination-
Theories:
• Sociological theory- pg 7 in Pretoruis
• Why are theories useful and practical?
• The generally accepted definition of a theory
• The main sociological theories:
• 1) Structuralism/ Functionalism (Durkheim): Society as an organism, tendency towards equilibrium, statuses and roles, functions: manifest and latent+ benefits and disadvantages of this approach
• 2) Conflict theory (Karl Marx): Evaluation
• 3) Symbolic theory (Max Weber)
• Comparison of theoretical perspectives
• Applying the theoretical theories:
This document discusses the social context of malaria in Odisha, India. It describes the region as tribal areas with small hamlets, rice fields, poor healthcare access, and housing conditions that increase malaria risk. The main mosquito vector that transmits malaria in the region survives well in flowing water. The lecture also broadly covers the social determinants of health and how political, economic, cultural and environmental factors influence disease patterns and health outcomes.
Lay understandings of health can provide alternative perspectives to medical understandings of health and illness. Research has found that lay people consider factors like stress, family history, and social class when assessing their own health risks rather than strictly following medical advice. The rise of the expert patient and internet has also challenged medical professional power by promoting lay knowledge and blurring boundaries between conventional and alternative medicine.
This document provides an introduction to basic concepts in medical sociology. It defines sociology as the study of human relationships and behavior and how they relate to health. Medical sociology specifically examines the cultural and social factors that influence illness. The document then defines and provides examples of key sociological terms like society, community, social institutions, roles, socialization, and social problems. It also discusses the role of social factors in health issues and diseases. The overall purpose is to introduce students to the field of medical sociology and how it examines the relationship between social and cultural factors and health/illness.
Эми Киета "Новая система здравоохранения: мировые тенденции"mosurban
This document discusses trends in healthcare as populations age globally. It notes an increased elderly population and changes in patient profiles and disease patterns, creating a need for new approaches to healthcare. Specifically, it calls for a holistic, relationship-focused approach supported by advanced technologies to meet elders' psychosocial needs. It also argues for redefining concepts of health and safety, as well as changing mindsets from acute to elderly care to focus on living with dignity and familiar lifestyles rather than just cures or saving lives.
The course is to a large extend considered satisfactory for the meant students as it offers the candidates the base line knowledge in social aspects of the health , social systems and their impact on health and /or illness
Inside an innovation - birth of individual budgetsCitizen Network
Talk given to the Social Policy Research Unit in York on the birth of individual budgets and the development and transformation of the innovation - with particular reference to role of research in social innovation
The document discusses the benefits of exercise for mental health. Regular physical activity can help reduce anxiety and depression and improve mood and cognitive functioning. Exercise causes chemical changes in the brain that may help protect against mental illness and improve symptoms.
TCS aims to transfer community health services in Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland to other provider organizations by 2011. Services will transfer to University Hospitals of Leicester, Derbyshire County Community Health Services, Leicestershire Partnership Trust, and Central Nottinghamshire Clinical Services on April 1, 2011. The transfers are being carried out in 3 phases and involve contract negotiations, due diligence, and setting up new service arrangements. Local GPs are involved in redesigning urgent care services and minor injury units.
This document discusses Indigenous health inequalities in Australia and the role of ethnicity in health outcomes. It notes that Indigenous Australians experience much higher rates of illness and mortality than non-Indigenous Australians, with life expectancy being 10-11 years lower. It explores historical and structural factors like racism, low socioeconomic status, and underfunding of Indigenous health services that contribute to persistent health inequalities. The document also examines how migrant health varies according to length of stay, refugee status, and barriers to healthcare for some non-English speaking communities. It proposes cultural competence as an alternative to mainstream health services to better meet the needs of Australia's ethnically diverse population.
This document discusses social class and health inequalities. It outlines several explanations for health inequalities, including artefact, natural/social selection, cultural/behavioral, materialist/structuralist, and psychosocial explanations. However, most sociologists favor materialist/structuralist explanations that focus on poor living and working conditions rather than victim-blaming. Class is defined broadly as one's position in a system of inequality based on power, wealth and status. There are relationships between patterns of illness/mortality and social class, as working class populations experience poorer health due to living/working conditions and access to resources.
Shreejeet Shrestha provides an overview of sociology and its application in public health. Sociology developed from 19th century theoretical writings and emphasizes social structures and processes over individuals. Key concepts in sociology like social fabric, conflict, and social systems are highly relevant to public health. While psychology has traditionally dominated social sciences in public health, sociology is increasingly important for understanding large-scale social determinants of health like inequality, social capital, and health systems. Sociological methods involving both quantitative and qualitative data are valuable tools for public health research and evaluation.
The document discusses the biomedical and socio-medical models of health. It provides information on each model, including what they focus on, links to sociological approaches, and potential factors that can influence health. Students are tasked with creating a poster explaining and assessing the two models, highlighting their ideas with examples from the session. They will then present their posters and ideas to the group.
This document provides an overview of sociological approaches to health and disease. It discusses the sociological perspective and how sociology can be used as a tool to understand society and address problems. The sociological perspective invites us to examine the connections between individual behavior and broader social structures. Sociological data collection and theories enable authorities to plan appropriate healthcare. The document also discusses structural functionalism and conflict theories as two major sociological frameworks for understanding society, health, and social issues. Structural functionalism views society as a system of interconnected parts striving for equilibrium, while conflict theory sees society as characterized by inequality and competition over resources. Symbolic interactionism focuses on the subjective meanings individuals ascribe to their actions and symbols.
This document provides an introduction to medical sociology. It defines key concepts like sociology, society, group, community, role, culture, and social control mechanisms. Medical sociology studies the medical profession, relationship between medicine and the public, and role of social factors in disease. A society is a system of social relationships with compulsory membership and cooperation/conflict. Culture refers to learned behaviors acquired in a society through customs, beliefs and skills. Acculturation describes the diffusion of cultures with contact between groups. Social problems can threaten community welfare when affecting many individuals.
This document discusses whether health issues should be considered social problems. It defines a social problem as something that contradicts desired quality of life, is caused by multiple social factors, and requires social action to resolve. The document argues that health issues meet this definition as illnesses can reduce quality of life, have social causes like lifestyle and environment, and require changes to things like healthcare access and costs. It examines how classical perspectives and normative approaches view health and social problems. The conclusion is that health issues relate to the definition of a social problem due to how they can impact life and wider social factors must be addressed through actions like prevention and healthcare reform.
The document discusses definitions of health from a sociological perspective. It introduces absolute versus relative definitions of health and how health is socially constructed and can mean different things to different cultures and groups within society. It also briefly outlines biomedical and traditional models of health and how health is generally measured through morbidity and mortality rates.
Medical sociology and health service research - Journal of Health and social ...Jorge Pacheco
This document summarizes key findings from medical sociology research on health services and systems over the past 50 years. It discusses three main findings: 1) Health services in the US are unequally distributed based on gender, socioeconomic status, and race, contributing to health inequalities. 2) Social institutions reproduce these inequalities by enabling or constraining actions of providers and consumers. 3) The structure and dynamics of health care organizations shape quality, effectiveness and outcomes for different groups in communities. The authors conclude by discussing implications for future health policy and reform efforts.
KAFKAS ÜNİVERSİTESİ/KAFKAS UNIVERSITY
SOCIOLOGY
Course
LECTURE NOTES AND POWER POINT PRESENTATIONS
Prof.Dr. Halit Hami ÖZ
Kars, TURKEY
hamioz@yahoo.com
This document discusses social determinants of health and access to healthcare. It presents models showing that access to care is determined by biological/need variables, demographic variables, socioeconomic status, place of living, and social variables. It also discusses the concepts of equity versus equitability of access, and how inequitable access can lead to unjust health outcomes and violations of people's right to health and access to care. The document analyzes components like access, socioeconomic status, and social justice as principles of social determinants of health.
The sociological perspective:
• What is the sociological perspective? Direct and indirect relationships
• Establishing patterns
• The sociological imagination-
Theories:
• Sociological theory- pg 7 in Pretoruis
• Why are theories useful and practical?
• The generally accepted definition of a theory
• The main sociological theories:
• 1) Structuralism/ Functionalism (Durkheim): Society as an organism, tendency towards equilibrium, statuses and roles, functions: manifest and latent+ benefits and disadvantages of this approach
• 2) Conflict theory (Karl Marx): Evaluation
• 3) Symbolic theory (Max Weber)
• Comparison of theoretical perspectives
• Applying the theoretical theories:
This document discusses the social context of malaria in Odisha, India. It describes the region as tribal areas with small hamlets, rice fields, poor healthcare access, and housing conditions that increase malaria risk. The main mosquito vector that transmits malaria in the region survives well in flowing water. The lecture also broadly covers the social determinants of health and how political, economic, cultural and environmental factors influence disease patterns and health outcomes.
Lay understandings of health can provide alternative perspectives to medical understandings of health and illness. Research has found that lay people consider factors like stress, family history, and social class when assessing their own health risks rather than strictly following medical advice. The rise of the expert patient and internet has also challenged medical professional power by promoting lay knowledge and blurring boundaries between conventional and alternative medicine.
This document provides an introduction to basic concepts in medical sociology. It defines sociology as the study of human relationships and behavior and how they relate to health. Medical sociology specifically examines the cultural and social factors that influence illness. The document then defines and provides examples of key sociological terms like society, community, social institutions, roles, socialization, and social problems. It also discusses the role of social factors in health issues and diseases. The overall purpose is to introduce students to the field of medical sociology and how it examines the relationship between social and cultural factors and health/illness.
Эми Киета "Новая система здравоохранения: мировые тенденции"mosurban
This document discusses trends in healthcare as populations age globally. It notes an increased elderly population and changes in patient profiles and disease patterns, creating a need for new approaches to healthcare. Specifically, it calls for a holistic, relationship-focused approach supported by advanced technologies to meet elders' psychosocial needs. It also argues for redefining concepts of health and safety, as well as changing mindsets from acute to elderly care to focus on living with dignity and familiar lifestyles rather than just cures or saving lives.
The course is to a large extend considered satisfactory for the meant students as it offers the candidates the base line knowledge in social aspects of the health , social systems and their impact on health and /or illness
Inside an innovation - birth of individual budgetsCitizen Network
Talk given to the Social Policy Research Unit in York on the birth of individual budgets and the development and transformation of the innovation - with particular reference to role of research in social innovation
The document discusses the benefits of exercise for mental health. Regular physical activity can help reduce anxiety and depression and improve mood and cognitive functioning. Exercise causes chemical changes in the brain that may help protect against mental illness and improve symptoms.
TCS aims to transfer community health services in Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland to other provider organizations by 2011. Services will transfer to University Hospitals of Leicester, Derbyshire County Community Health Services, Leicestershire Partnership Trust, and Central Nottinghamshire Clinical Services on April 1, 2011. The transfers are being carried out in 3 phases and involve contract negotiations, due diligence, and setting up new service arrangements. Local GPs are involved in redesigning urgent care services and minor injury units.
Accessible Questions for Candidates - Version No. 2Citizen Network
These slides suggest possible questions to ask parliamentary candidates in the May 2015 General Election. This set use Photosymbols images and accessible written English.
The document summarizes the history and goals of the International Schools Choral Music Society (ISCMS). It provides details about past ISCMS festivals including locations, repertoire performed, number of participating schools and singers. It also previews plans for ISCMS VII in 2014. The summary discusses how ISCMS brings together students from international schools across Asia to perform challenging choral and orchestral works under the direction of professional musicians. ISCMS aims to provide participants with a unique musical experience that develops their skills and promotes collaboration across cultures.
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Unique features, Aims, Purposes and Models of Public HealthNabin Lamichhane
The document discusses several unique features of public health, including its basis in social justice philosophy, inherently political nature, dynamic and ever-expanding agenda, link with government, grounding in science, focus on prevention, and uncommon culture among professionals. It also examines different models of public health, such as social, medical, bio-physical, and salutogenic models. The values of public health are described as saving lives and reducing illness, injury, and violence by preventing exposure to health risks.
Drawing Out Links: Health Equity, Social Determinants of Health and Social Po...Wellesley Institute
This presentation provides insight on health equity, social determinants of health and social policy.
Bob Gardner, Director of Policy
Steve Barnes, Policy Analyst
www.wellesleyinstitute.com
Follow us on twitter @wellesleyWI
The document discusses the role of advanced nurse practitioners in behavior change and public health. It outlines models for behavior change and describes levers for influencing behavior at individual, social, and environmental levels. An example is given of an ANP who worked to reduce glass injuries from pub fights by implementing plastic drink containers. The summary concludes that ANPs can play a valuable role shaping health services and policy to improve outcomes at community and population levels through applying behavior change models and setting clear outcome measures.
Foundation & principles of Bioethics.pptxPriyanka Meel
This document provides an overview of the foundations of bioethics. It defines ethics and health ethics, discusses important principles like beneficence, non-maleficence, and autonomy. It also covers topics like informed consent, truth-telling, conflicts of interest, capacity assessments, futile care, and the role of ethics committees. The document establishes that bioethics aims to guide complex medical decisions using moral frameworks to balance patient welfare, rights, justice, and professional standards.
Health Equity Workshop - Promising PracticesASI_HSC
This document summarizes strategies and evidence for advancing health equity. It discusses 10 promising practices including intersectoral action, targeting universal policies, purposeful reporting, social marketing, and community engagement. For each practice, the document provides examples from public health organizations and literature reviews on the impact and how to effectively implement the strategies. It emphasizes assessing health inequities, modifying interventions to reduce inequities, and partnering with other organizations to improve health outcomes for marginalized groups.
Major stakeholders in the health care system include governments, non-governmental organizations, industries, and other professionals. The health care system aims to provide services and resources for better health through hospitals, clinics, health centers, and special health programs. Stakeholders encompass a wide range of groups including patients, health care professionals, hospital administrators, pharmacists, and suppliers.
This document summarizes a presentation on advancing community health across the continuum of care from a health systems perspective. The presentation describes global trends driving more integrated and person-centered health services. It identifies challenges like intersectoral issues, medicalization, and accountability. Examples are provided on early childhood development programs, lessons from Ebola, and strengthening integrated community case management. The conclusion advocates for health systems that engage communities, challenge inequity, coordinate sectors, respond to illness causes, and adapt resiliently.
Marilyn Wise (Health Public Policy Centre for Health Equity Training and Evaluation) delivered the keynote address at the AFAO/NAPWA Gay Men's HIV Health Promotion Conference in May 2012.
She reflected on what she described as the 'system' of complex, multiple responses, that has evolved in Australia to contain HIV, and what we can learn from our successes in order to address the goals of the UN Political declaration on HIV and meet Australia's targets for HIV prevention and treatment.
Social and economic policies can change health inequalities sophieproject
Conclusions of the SOPHIE project presented at the meeting of the DG SANTE Expert Group on Social Determinants of Health. Luxembourg, 10th of March 2016.
This document introduces the asset approach for improving community health and reducing health inequalities. The asset approach focuses on communities' strengths rather than deficits, viewing communities as having skills, knowledge, and social connections that can be mobilized. It emphasizes empowering communities and residents as co-producers of health rather than just recipients of services. The asset approach values what works well in communities and builds individual and community resilience. It can be used to refocus existing programs and requires practitioners to share power with communities. Specific local solutions may not be transferable, but the approach's principles of community empowerment can be replicated.
The state in global health (focus on LICs/MICs)Albert Domingo
A report/presentation on the changing dynamics of the power of the state viz. external actors in formulating health policy, particularly in low income countries and middle income countries.
This document discusses community engagement for health improvement. It identifies four key roles for community engagement: 1) determining local needs and aspirations, 2) promoting health and reducing inequalities, 3) improving service design and quality of care, and 4) strengthening local accountability. The document reviews different approaches to community engagement in the UK, presents examples of relevant initiatives, and identifies characteristics of successful community engagement projects, including clarity of purpose, leadership, engagement strategies, and evaluation. The goal is to inform the Health Foundation's efforts to strengthen community engagement in health.
Health Equity for Immigrants and Refugees: Driving Policy ActionWellesley Institute
This presentation discusses health equity for immigrants and refugees.
Bob Gardner, Director of Policy
www.wellesleyinstitute.com
Follow us on twitter @wellesleyWI
Health Equity Strategy, Interpretation and Other Levers for Driving ChangeWellesley Institute
This presentation outlines effective ways to create change within your community.
Bob Gardner, Director of Policy
www.wellesleyinstitute.com
Follow us on twitter @wellesleyWI
Community-based Peer Support: A participatory review of what works, for whom, in what circumstances
Author - Dr Janet Harris, The University of Sheffield
This document provides an overview of major theoretical perspectives in health sociology. It discusses functionalism and its concept of the sick role; Marxism and commodification of health; Weberianism and McDonaldisation; symbolic interactionism and concepts like illness trajectory; feminism's focus on medicalization and biological determinism; and post-structuralism/Foucault's concept of the medical gaze. The document emphasizes that different perspectives offer different insights and that incorporating multiple perspectives can best help understand specific health issues.
This document discusses different forms of public engagement that could be appropriate for drug policy decisions. It notes that deliberative public engagement events can incorporate diverse perspectives but may not be fully representative. It advocates for participatory governance with advisory bodies that regularly refresh their engagement to better reflect the public. Experiments with different engagement methods should be assessed to help balance input with decision efficiency.
Networked Energy: Energy independence for AlderneyCitizen Network
by Chris Cook and Marcus Saul, Island Power
As Research Fellows at the Institute for Strategy, Resilience and Security, at University College, London, Marcus Saul and Chris Cook researched and developed the Pacific Natural Grid resource resilience strategy.
Here they explain how Denmark has led the way in creating sustainable networks of community-based energy production and distribution.
This has been transformative for Denmark, enabling it to become independent from the oil and gas industry’s dominance. But it is also transformative for communities, who are now creating their own energy economies.
Dr Dave Beck gave this talk for Part 5 of the ‘Grassroots Policies for Farming, Food and Wildlife’ webinar series, hosted by Citizen Network.
In his presentation Dr Beck discusses the harms caused by the monopolisation of supermarkets in the food industry. He also explores the positive possibilities of local currencies.
Dr Beck is a Lecturer at the University of Salford, Manchester.
The webinar recording is available to watch on Citizen Network's website at: www.citizen-network.org
This document discusses key issues in disability and aged care systems and proposes ways to advance citizenship rights through self-directed support. It advocates for personal budgets and upstream solutions to prevent crises. It also highlights the need for innovation from communities, professionals, and individuals to develop sustainable and inclusive systems that respect people's freedom, support, participation, and citizenship.
Sabrina Espeleta of War on Want outlines the enormous and growing level of world hunger. She explains how a few global corporations control the vast majority of food production and supply and markets exploit the food market, leaving communities, especially in the Global South at great disadvantage. Local peasant farmers are now organising to achieve food sovereignty, seeking to farm in ways in harmony with nature and to meet local needs. The Global North needs to respect the rights and autonomy of these people rather than to continue the pattern of exploitation.
This presentation was given on 6 July in Part 4 of a webinar series on grassroots policies for farming, food and wildlife.
Watch the recording at: https://citizen-network.org
Simon Duffy was asked by the Mayor’s Greater Manchester Charity and UBI Lab Manchester to talk at a recent roundtable event on the relevance of Universal Basic Income (UBI) to the problem of homelessness.
These are the slides from that talk. In summary Duffy argued that UBI is relevant to reducing homelessness in two slightly different ways:
1. UBI would help prevent homelessness - UBI addresses the inequalities in income and housing that create the risk of homelessness.
2. UBI would help people escape homelessness - UBI gives people a vital tool which significantly helps people change their situation in times of crisis.
Find more free resources on basic income at: www.citizen-network.org
A presentation for the One Yorkshire Committee introducing Democratic Yorkshire - a voluntary alliance consisting of a group of organisations and individuals interested in planning a better future for our County through modern democratic means secured in a written constitution.
In this presentation exploring planning law, Laird Ryan talks us through the planning process, explores what we can and can't influence and helps us consider how best to create real, organic and local alliances that make the best use of our energy.
To find out more about the Neighbourhood Democracy Movement please visit: https://neighbourhooddemocracy.org
Citizenship is our Business - The Avivo StoryCitizen Network
Avivo is one of the founding organisations in Citizen Network. they are also pioneers in self-direction and personalised support in Australia. Over the past few years they have been reorganising themselves around the principle that everyone is a citizen - and supporting everyone, including paid staff, to be citizens is their central purpose. Avivo are also leading Citizen Network's Rethinking Organisations programme and networking with other organisations on this journey.
Dr Simon Duffy spoke to Doncaster's Mental Wellbeing Alliance about the importance of thinking about what good help really means. He explored the importance of shifting power, resources and thinking upstream.
Markus Vähälä, CEO of Citizen Network, outlined the development of the cooperative as a framework to support the further development of Citizen Network as part of the 2022 Building Citizen network Together events hosted by Eberswalde University.
At BuildingCitizen Network Together in early 2022 Simon Duffy and James Lock discussed the development of Citizen Network and its current approach to membership and explored with members from all around the world next steps for its development.
These slides are from a talk Dr Simon Duffy of Citizen Network gave to Café Economique in Leeds, making the case for basic income. The argument set out is that UBI is one necessary part of a range of reforms necessary to support citizenship and strengthen community life. This talk preceded a (rather fiery) debate with Anna Coote of NEF who argued against UBI.
The document discusses the benefits of exercise for mental health. Regular physical activity can help reduce anxiety and depression and improve mood and cognitive function. Exercise causes chemical changes in the brain that may help protect against mental illness and improve symptoms.
Simon Duffy gave this talk for Radical Visions on home, citizenship, institutionalisation and neighbourhood democracy. He explains why institutions are wrong and what we might be do to end the drive towards institutionalisation.
A presentation for the Estia International Confernce in 2021 from Dr Simon Duffy exploring personal budgets, citizenship and community and the challenges for services aiming to work in partnership with people with disabilities in Greece.
An example of good practice in inclusion in employment from Slovenia, shared at the Day Centres Without Walls conference, hosted by JDC in Lithuania. Day Centres Without Walls is an Erasmus+ project funded by the EU.
Rasamanikya is a excellent preparation in the field of Rasashastra, it is used in various Kushtha Roga, Shwasa, Vicharchika, Bhagandara, Vatarakta, and Phiranga Roga. In this article Preparation& Comparative analytical profile for both Formulationon i.e Rasamanikya prepared by Kushmanda swarasa & Churnodhaka Shodita Haratala. The study aims to provide insights into the comparative efficacy and analytical aspects of these formulations for enhanced therapeutic outcomes.
These lecture slides, by Dr Sidra Arshad, offer a quick overview of the physiological basis of a normal electrocardiogram.
Learning objectives:
1. Define an electrocardiogram (ECG) and electrocardiography
2. Describe how dipoles generated by the heart produce the waveforms of the ECG
3. Describe the components of a normal electrocardiogram of a typical bipolar lead (limb II)
4. Differentiate between intervals and segments
5. Enlist some common indications for obtaining an ECG
6. Describe the flow of current around the heart during the cardiac cycle
7. Discuss the placement and polarity of the leads of electrocardiograph
8. Describe the normal electrocardiograms recorded from the limb leads and explain the physiological basis of the different records that are obtained
9. Define mean electrical vector (axis) of the heart and give the normal range
10. Define the mean QRS vector
11. Describe the axes of leads (hexagonal reference system)
12. Comprehend the vectorial analysis of the normal ECG
13. Determine the mean electrical axis of the ventricular QRS and appreciate the mean axis deviation
14. Explain the concepts of current of injury, J point, and their significance
Study Resources:
1. Chapter 11, Guyton and Hall Textbook of Medical Physiology, 14th edition
2. Chapter 9, Human Physiology - From Cells to Systems, Lauralee Sherwood, 9th edition
3. Chapter 29, Ganong’s Review of Medical Physiology, 26th edition
4. Electrocardiogram, StatPearls - https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK549803/
5. ECG in Medical Practice by ABM Abdullah, 4th edition
6. Chapter 3, Cardiology Explained, https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK2214/
7. ECG Basics, http://www.nataliescasebook.com/tag/e-c-g-basics
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Osteoporosis - Definition , Evaluation and Management .pdfJim Jacob Roy
Osteoporosis is an increasing cause of morbidity among the elderly.
In this document , a brief outline of osteoporosis is given , including the risk factors of osteoporosis fractures , the indications for testing bone mineral density and the management of osteoporosis
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Muktapishti is a traditional Ayurvedic preparation made from Shoditha Mukta (Purified Pearl), is believed to help regulate thyroid function and reduce symptoms of hyperthyroidism due to its cooling and balancing properties. Clinical evidence on its efficacy remains limited, necessitating further research to validate its therapeutic benefits.
1. Health & Personal Budgets
exploring dilemmas
Dr Simon Duffy - for Leeds University
2. Dr Simon Duffy
•Social innovator - e.g. personal budgets
•Philosopher - work on citizenship
•Advisor - Campaign for a Fair Society
The Centre for Welfare ReformReform does not mean cuts
and inequalityWelfare state is good, but designed
wrongNeeds more innovation, andRespect for citizenship,
families, community & justice
•Reform does not mean cuts and inequalityWelfare state is
good, but designed wrongNeeds more innovation,
andRespect for citizenship, families, community & justice
3.
4. • Does real evidence exists for the use of personal
budgets?
• Is it possible to develop and test innovations like
personal budgets in the same way as we test
other clinical innovations?
• Are social innovations relevant or even possible
within healthcare?
• Do personal budgets open up new forms of
innovatory and scientific spaces between
clinicians and patients?
5. • From 1960s disabled people tried to convert fixed
service solutions into budgets under their own
control... mixed international progress
• Innovations start within communities, but then
have to engage with wider policy process... e.g.
PHBs
• Innovations can be supported or corrupted by
many factors - they are factors in systemic
changes - but they do not determine everything.
• Relationship between social innovations and
institutions of validity are complex
18. • What is the role of doctor beyond rationing
medicine and surgery? If the doctor is not relevant
to whom does the doctor look for other help?
• If social innovations start outside government, and
are often corrupted by government what is the
role of doctors or academia in nurturing them?
• What is the best methodological approach for an
evolving social practice that exists in a complex,
changing context?
• Is innovation possible or valuable within the
doctor-patient relationship?