UNIT 3:
Health of Canadians – Understanding Health and Determinants of Health
Annotated Reference List
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This article discusses proposal to change the emphasis of the WHO’s definition of health to one that adapts and self manages disease and illness.
Huber, M. (2011). Health: How should we define it? British Medical Journal, 343,(7817), 235-237. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.d4163
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This article emphasizes the importance of functioning disability with the definition of health, and encourages the need to describe, measure, and compare states of health in order to obtain a definition operational for everyone.
Stucki, G., Rubinelli, S., & Bickenbach, J. (2020). We need an operationalisation, not a definition of health. Disability and Rehabilitation,42(3), 442–444.
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This article discusses the WHO’s definition of health and how it should encompass more than what WHO gave it.
Oleribe, O. O., Ukwedeh, O., Burstow, N. J., Gomaa, A. I., Sonderup, M. W., Cook, N., Waked, I., Spearman, W., & Taylor- Robinson, S. D. (2018). Health: redefined. The Pan African Medical Journal, 30,292. https://doi.org/10.11604/pamj.2018.30.292.15436
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This article discusses the challenges of accessing health care without proper identification. Relation is made to personal identity documents being connected to the social determinants of health and poverty.
Sanders, C., Burnett, K., Lam, S., Hassan, M., & Skinner, K. (2020). “You need ID to get ID”: A scoping review of personal identification as
a barrier to and facilitator of the social determinants of health in North America. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 17(12), 1–20. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph17124227