HLTH 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Asthma, The Barker, Cohort Study

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Health Studies
• Course: HLTH 101
• Professor: Elaine Power

Document Summary

Instead, it suggests that what determines our health is much more complicated, and is impacted by the socio-economic and political conditions that our mothers and their mothers and grandmothers grew up in. When seen through the lens of the dominant discourse on health, which holds individuals responsible for health, such evidence can be used to blame mothers and fathers for their children"s health. There are also pathway effects on health: this means that experiences in early life experiences affect later life experiences. Children who live in poor families also tend to have adverse experiences of other social determinants of health, such as food insecurity, poor housing, and unsafe neighbourhoods. Despite a resolution passed unanimously in 1989 by members of parliament to end child poverty by the year 2000, about one in five kids, or about 1. 3 million children currently lives in poverty in this country.