HLTH 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Socioeconomic Status, Ecosystem Services
16 Jan 2018
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Income-health gradient: wherever we look richer people are healthier and live longer disability-free lives. Income as a determinant of determinants: poverty, housing, early life opportunities, access to care. Insurance and life saving technology: cost of medication, transportation to hospital, psychosocial stress. Female lone parent families: recent immigrants, unattached adults, aboriginal identity. Individual risk of poverty cannot be considered in isolation from the risk for the population. Economic growth: means or ends: the gross national product does not allow for health of children, the quality of their education or the joy of their play. Closing the gap/ solution: you can either give people more money, or you can reduce the things that make not having money a health problem. Giving people money (income redistribution: taxes and transfers, basic minimum income. Spending on public programs: universal primary health care, universal health insurance, beyond health, close the gap in other sdh.
