Module one transmission learning Flashcards
(18 cards)
what is illness?
a feeling of unwellness
a deviation from health
what is the iceberg model for health care transmission?
at least 3 sectors/layers of health care
site within an iceberg shape
include doctor, healers, lay folk
what is the language of distress?
they way through which we express illness
it acts as a bridge between individual and others
what is health care pluralism?
multiple sources of expertise/knowledge of health care
what is disease?
a diagnosis
identification and label for an illness
departure from the norm established by biomedical authority
what is health?
health is the capacity to become sick and to recover
what is a contested diagnosis?
when an individual believes they are ill but not many believe them
or
others think you are ill and you feel you are normal
what are the reasons for medical travel?
need for privacy
different treatments
cost
what is pilgrimage?
to feel the to seek the treatment took effort and is thus worth it/ you deserve to get better
what are the reasons for medical travel?
need for privacy
different treatments
cost
to feel worth in the treatment/you have worked for it
what is healing?
a feeling of moving forward to health
the journey away from suffering
taking steps forward
what is suffering?
state of distress
perceived threat to individual integrity
what is intersectionality?
entanglement of health and identity
enhancement and diminution of life changes influenced by factors of individuality
what is structural suffering?
systematic, widespread, predictable inequality
what is the social model for disability?
difference from societal and/or biomedical norms
what is the predicament model of disability?
disability has medial and material components
is a predicament that we must resolve to the best of our ability
what is biopower?
how social power operates in society to influence the definition of “good health”
what are technologies of the self?
enforcement of knowledge obtained about health (through multiple sources) by the individual
