HLTH202 Lecture Notes - Lecture 19: Health Equity

• School: University of Waterloo
• Department: Health Studies
• Course: HLTH202
• Professor: Melody Ninyoma

Document Summary

Lecture 19 health inequalities in health promotion and thinking critically. The health care system provides equal access of health care services to all people in canada. Differences in mortality rates between people from different social classes in considered a health inequity. Health inequity issues in canada: low income- has a huge impact on health status. Lower income people develop more chronic diseases: aboriginals- housing insecurities, inaccessibility"s, rural neighbourhoods- chronic conditions in different immigrant populations. Health care policy issues and recommendations: oral health care government does not cover dental. They proposed insurance to have access to it. There are people who came about pain in their mouth, because they don"t have dental coverage and are in a lot of pain. Thus oral health care should be a necessity for canadians: undocumented pregnant women could be people waiting for their proper documents and they don"t have government health insurance until they get it.