Chapter 7-
Health and Society
We are who our society wants us to be - Group influence behaviour
Learning Journey "Stop-See-Learn" Spot #1 of 6
The School of Health Sciences, Ngee Ann Polytechnic, Singapore
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CHONG_Ching_Liang@np.edu.sg
Edited by: Yasmeen SHARIFF
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All human are biologically identical according to the geneticists. In fact a group of scientists have gone as far as to argue that the term"Race" should be phased out (Gannon, 2016). The full article can be access via this link or via the original website. So if this is a scientific fact, then why are different human beings susceptible to different kinds of diseases?
Let's start as per normal, by looking at some statistics about health.
7.0 WHO Stats Causes of Death.m4vThe above video was built based on data found in study conducted by the World Health Organisation. The full report can be found via this link.
Learning Objectives
Starting from this lesson, we will start to look beyond the thoughts of the individuals and how these thoughts might have influenced their health behaviours. Rather, we will start to look at how Society would place certain pressure on individuals that will dictate their behaviour. In other words, we will look at this concept that the individuals are often forced by their social environment to behave in a certain ways that may compromise their health decision. We will now move into trying to understand the Social section of the Biopsychosocial Model first introduced in the very first stop of your learning journey here. You may click on the highlighted links for a revision on this model.
Here are the areas to be covered in your learning journey for this week:
Sociology and the Sociological Imagination.
Socialisation or How we learn to be Human?
George Herbert Mead's Stages of the Development of Self
The Transtheoretical Model of Behaviour Change applied to healthcare
By the end of this week's lesson, you should understand the very powerful impact that society has on individual human beings.
You will be able to understand that who we are is a direct results of the social programming that happened to us during the process of socialisation.
Learn to apply the Trans-theoretical Model of Behaviour Change to understand how to help patients shift to medical compliance.
But before we begin, let's just watch a fun little video on the power of the group to influence our individual behaviour.
7.0 Prudential Everybody_s Doing It.mp4This prudential advertisement (Prudential, 2013) was originally hosted in their Youtube channel at this following site: https://youtu.be/BgRoiTWkBHU
References
Gannon, M. (2016, February 5). Race Is a Social Construct, Scientists Argue. Retrieved February 24, 2020, from https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/race-is-a-social-construct-scientists-argue/
Prudential. (2013, March 13). Prudential: Everybody's Doing It. Retrieved February 23, 2020, from https://youtu.be/BgRoiTWkBHU
World Health Organization. (2018, May 24). The top 10 causes of death. Retrieved February 23, 2020, from https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/the-top-10-causes-of-death
