Understanding Health Care
Asthma! Excellent choice! The child is likely a sufferer of asthma, but why?
Making the Diagnosis:
Behavioral Factors = Actions or behaviors that influence health
- behavioral factors are often considered more proximate causes (more directly related) for disease. For example, the smell of smoke on the
parent might make you wonder if the parent smokes. If they did it would be a behavior that indicated the presence of an aggravate and toxic
that would decrease the health of the lung.
Social determinants of health = anything in the social world that affects health
- This includes neighborhoods, healthcare, food, housing, employment and education. Your knowledge about where the child spends the
majority of his time could help us get to the root of the problem.
Determinant of equity = inequality generating processes in a society
- This includes racism, sexism and classism and although they should not influence one's health they tend to have negative consequences.
Classism and racism for example might make a provider less likely to believe the patient or assume certain social facts [acting, fixed or not,
capable of exercising on the individual an external constraint; or again, every way of acting which is general throughout a given society, while at
the same time existing in its own right independent of its individual manifestations (Durkheim 1895)] which might mis-influence a diagnosis.
Now let's find the fundamental cause of this asthma by using the 'but why?' approach. Fundamental causes of disease involve resources that determine the extent to which people are able to avoid risks for morbidity and mortality and because resources are important determinants of risk factors, fundamental causes are linked to multiple disease outcomes through multiple risk-factor mechanisms.
So why does the kid have asthma?
Making the Diagnosis:
Behavioral Factors = Actions or behaviors that influence health
- behavioral factors are often considered more proximate causes (more directly related) for disease. For example, the smell of smoke on the
parent might make you wonder if the parent smokes. If they did it would be a behavior that indicated the presence of an aggravate and toxic
that would decrease the health of the lung.
Social determinants of health = anything in the social world that affects health
- This includes neighborhoods, healthcare, food, housing, employment and education. Your knowledge about where the child spends the
majority of his time could help us get to the root of the problem.
Determinant of equity = inequality generating processes in a society
- This includes racism, sexism and classism and although they should not influence one's health they tend to have negative consequences.
Classism and racism for example might make a provider less likely to believe the patient or assume certain social facts [acting, fixed or not,
capable of exercising on the individual an external constraint; or again, every way of acting which is general throughout a given society, while at
the same time existing in its own right independent of its individual manifestations (Durkheim 1895)] which might mis-influence a diagnosis.
Now let's find the fundamental cause of this asthma by using the 'but why?' approach. Fundamental causes of disease involve resources that determine the extent to which people are able to avoid risks for morbidity and mortality and because resources are important determinants of risk factors, fundamental causes are linked to multiple disease outcomes through multiple risk-factor mechanisms.
So why does the kid have asthma?