Health in Context

Question 1

What does it mean that healthis in context?

Answer 1

The context influence our perception of health and how we health should be understood
- Exhaustion is a health phenomena unique to Sweden
- Health is not in a vacuum

Question 2

What is context?

Answer 2

• Unique to each individual
• The situation in which something happens and that helps you to understand it

Question 3

What are the two types of context?

Answer 3

Innercontexts
- Physiology and biology
- Emotions
- Cognition
- Learning

Outer contexts
- Social support
- Health care and insurance
- Norms
- Communication