Year 1 PASS Flashcards
(32 cards)
What are the perceptions of health?
- negative: absence of illness
- functional: ability to do day to day tasks
- positive: state of wellbeing + fitness
What is the negative perception of health?
Who is it seen in?
Absence of illness
Lower socioeconomic classes
What is the functional perception of health?
Who is it seen in?
Ability to do day to day tasks
Older people
What is the positive perception of health?
Who is it seen in?
State of wellbeing + fitness
Higher socioeconomic classes
What are the different types of work?
Illness
Everyday life
Emotional
Biographical
Identify
What is illness work?
Period leading up to getting diagnosis/dealing with physical manifestations of illness
What is everyday life work?
Action + process in managing condition + its impact on life
What is emotional work?
Managing one’s emotions + others
‘Presenting as cheery self’
What is biographical work?
Reconstruction of biography
Links to feeling of ‘loss of self’
What is identity work?
The idea of maintaining an acceptable identity + no letting illness defining aspect of identity
What are the types of stigma
Felt vs enacted
Discreditable vs discredited
Felt vs enacted stimga
- Felt: fear of enacted stigma
- enacted: real experience of discrimination/prejudice
Discreditable vs discredited stigma
- discreditable: not visible but if found out people may treat you differently *e.g. depression, HIV**
- discredited: physical visible characteristic e.g. physical disability
Socioeconomic explanations - black report
- artefacts
- materialists
- behavioural cultural
- social selection
Socioeconomic explanations - not black report
Psychosocial explanations
Income distribution (Wilkinson’s theory)
Outline artefacts explanation
Social inequalities is due to how stats are collected
most discredited
Outline materialist explanation
Inequalities in health arise due to different access to material recourses
Lack of choice in exposure to hazards
most plausible
Outline behavioural cultural explanation
Ill health is due to peoples choices, knowledge + goals
Outline social selection explanation
Direction of causation is from health to social position
Healthy people move up, ill people move down
Outline psychosocial explanation
Psychosocial pathways act in addition to direct effects of absolute material living standards
Outline income distribution (Wilkinson’s theory)
Relative income affects wealth
Increased income inequalities > increases stress + reduces health
What does PICO stand for?
Patient
Intervention
Comparison
Outcome
What does COM-B model stand for?
Capability
Motivation
Opportunity
Behaviour
Learning theories of health related behaviours
Classical conditioning
Operant conditioning
Social learning theory
