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Health continued

• Today
• Health care
• Research Methods
• Turn in article reflection

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What sociocultural factors affect your health?

• 4) Lifestyle
• Activity level at work

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What sociocultural factors affect your health?

• 4) Lifestyle
• Activity level at work

adjustable
Standing work station
Treadmill work station
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• Many Americans sit at work 8 hours a day
• Continue to sit at home (TV, comp)
• 30 mins a day activity not enough

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• Make time to
• stand
• walk
• stretch
• exercise

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What sociocultural factors affect your health?

• 4) Lifestyle - rushing
• Hand washing

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4) Lifestyle-rushing Meditation
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Top underlying factors leading to preventable
deaths in the U.S.

1. Tobacco
2. Poor diet and inadequate exercise
3. Alcohol
4. Bacteria and viruses (not including HIV)
5. Polluted workplaces and neighborhoods
6. Car accidents (not including drug/alcohol use
   related)
7. Guns
8. Sexual behavior
9. Illegal drugs

(Preventable death not caused by old age or
genetic disease)
Source Journal of American Medical Association,
Mokdad et al, 2004
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Health Belief Model
Conditions for taking care of your own health

1. Must believe your are at risk
2. Must believe the problem is serious
3. Must believe prevention will change risk
   significantly
4. Must believe they can overcome financial,
   emotional, or physical barriers

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Views on Health Symbolic Interactionist
Structural Functionalist Conflict Theory
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Functionalist Perspective

• Functions
• a break from hectic schedules
• income for those who work in health industry

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Functionalist Perspective

• Dysfunction Those who are ill cannot perform
  their obligations

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Dysfunctions

• Too little health care no insurance, or coverage
  denied
• Too much health care unnecessary surgeries, over
  use of pharmaceuticals

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The Symbolic Interactionist Perspective

• We attach labels (some very negative) to various
  illnesses
• Ex AIDS, mental illness, physical disabilities
• May be treated differently

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The Symbolic Interactionist Perspective
clinical depression
obsessive-compulsive disorder
schizophrenia
attention-deficit disorder
bipolar disorder
post-traumatic stress disorder
anorexia
social anxiety disorder
post-partum depression
bulimia

• Stigma related to mental illness can be harmful

• Lack of understanding by others is stressful
• Fear of getting help
• Discrimination at work or school
• Bullying, physical violence, or harassment
• Health insurance may not cover needs

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Conflict and Symbolic Interactionist Perspective

• Medicalization defining or labeling behaviors
  and conditions as medical problems
• Male sexual dysfunction
• Obesity

Pharmaceutical companies can benefit from this
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Conflict and Symbolic Interactionist Perspective

• Medicalization changes how a condition is
  perceived and people are treated
• sex addiction
• alcoholism

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The Conflict Perspective

• Health resources are scarce, groups must compete

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The Conflict Perspective

• What resources do you need access to in order to
  be healthy?

food
shelter
water
medical expertise
safe working conditions
Wealthy have more access to health resources
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The Conflict Perspective

• Insurance companies have the money and power to
  protect their interests

Video Clip Linda Pino Testimony
http//www.youtube.com/watch?vzGKtROmiJL8
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Extra CreditDue by Wednesday May 6thIf you
turned in a movie reflection- hand it back to get
full points
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Society and Health
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Extra Credit Opportunity

• In your group analyze the foods
• Circle the Healthy
• X the Not too healthy
• 7 minutes
• The team with the most correct answers wins

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Proposed Health Care Solutions

• National health insurance/Universal Health Care
• Government provides health coverage for all
  citizens (usually through taxes)

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Universal Health Care Availability
Have some form of universal health
care Attempting to implement universal health
care No universal health care
Source World Health Organization 2010
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Sick Around The World
Take notes on How did each of these nations
provide
national health care? England/United
Kingdom/Great Britain Japan Germany Taiwan Switzer
land
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College Students and Health

• alcohol abuse
• sleep deprivation
• fast food/poor nutrition
• drug abuse
• unprotected sex
• anxiety and depression
• stress
• eating disorders
• smoking
• lack of insurance
• lack of exercise

What do you think are the 2 most important issues
regarding the health of college students? Why?
What do you think were the most important tips
from the article?
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Research Methods
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What is the point of social research?

• Objective and systematic approach to
  understanding society

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Purposes of conducting research

• Exploration
• Investigate a little understood issue
• Description
• Paint a picture
• Describe all details
• Explanation
• Explain why events occurs
• Build, elaborate, or a test a theory

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Steps in the research process

1. Select a topic
2. Literature Review
3. Research design/ Methods
4. Collect data
5. Code data
6. Results and discussion
7. Inform Others

Each steps has importance
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• Coming up
• All extra credit due Wednesday May 6th
• Final Exam
• 25 questions multiple choice
• Study guide will be posted