FNF 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Health Equity, Health Literacy, Health Professional

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Family Studies
• Course: FNF 100
• Professor: Dan Mahoney

Document Summary

!1: a lot of people will never have those opportunities, impact their life decisions, health. Friday, january 27, 2017 care practices and health histories moving forwards. Health disparities: health disparities are differences that occur by gender, race and ethnicity, education level, income level, disability, geographic location, and/or sexual orientation. Materialist/structuralist explanation: the material conditions under which people live their lives, how society organizes and distributes economic and social resources to individuals, families, and communities, position in the occupational hierarchy in uence our health. Cultural/behavioural explanations: different distribution of health behaviours between socio-economic groups: Friday, january 27, 2017: smoking, obesity (bmis, eating patterns, physical activity/inactivity. Observable, measurable, easy number-crunching: emphasis on the societal conditions rather than the traditional focus on the biomedical and behavioural risk factors such as cholesterol, body weight, physical activity, diet, and tobacco use. Social determinants of health: aboriginal status, early life, education, employment and working conditions, food security, housing, income distribution, social exclusion.