SOSA 2503 Lecture 9: SOSA 2503 - Lecture 9
22 Feb 2019
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Sosa 2503 lecture 9 february 5, 2019. Overview: recap: social support and aging, the development of medicare in canada, contest and consolidation, 1971-1984, physician resistance, the undermining of medicare, neoliberalism and the unsustainability thesis . Old age as socially constructed: ageism, canada"s aging population, mortality statistics and the social determinants of health: the case of aboriginal canadians. What constitute old age had to do with the establishment of the canadian"s pension, age 65. This is an example of how old age was constructed but our definition of old age is changing now, with people achieving the marker"s in life later and later. The aging population was termed an economical crisis. The birth of medicare in canada: broader context, great depression, 1929-1939, keynesian economic theory. Influence of socialism: growing support for welfare state , a system whereby the government assumes primary responsibility for the welfare of its citizens through programs designed to protect and promote their economic and social wellbeing.
