Nursing 2220A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Cathy Crowe, Substance Abuse, Health Promotion
9 Dec 2016
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Week 5: variously defined, 40,000 stay in a shelter on any given night in canada, 1/9 (~3 million) have experienced or come close to homelessness (1/5 in mb. Some canadian stats : 150,000 300,000 people are homeless, homelessness is on the rise 19% increase from 2005-2008 in vancouver, Let(cid:495)s define poverty: as economy grows and community prospers, numbers in poverty also grow action, no universally accepted definition, measurements of conditions is an essential precondition to corrective policy. Cant mail them, email them, call them, theyre invisible, data not being collected, mostly qualitatively, if: the census does not represent those who are most deprived. Poverty 4 definitions: basic needs, market basket measure (mbm, low-income cut-off measure, low-income measure. Market basket measure (mbm): created by hrdc, similar to basic needs. Includes another category of essentials in addition to food, clothing and shelter: looks beyond purely physical needs, reference family is 2 adults & 2 children, may draw inferences for other family types.
