HLTC24H3 Lecture 5: Week 5 Notes
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Q4- low wage jobs and infant mortality/low birth rate. Suggests that we are growing more unequal: city of toronto and vancouver have high inequality because they are large cities. We are not doing a lot to help children in low income households. Canada does not invest as much in families as it used to. Intrauterine growth restriction this is related to growing income polarity: in uences with regards to socioeconomic conditions and a child s health. Political economy: we will have disadvantaged children unless governments intervene with policies. If senior levels of government address income inequality, income allocations, etc then cities and everyone else will be much better off. Cumulative: multiple exposures over the life course whose effects on health combine. these may be either multiple exposures to a single recurrent factor or a series of exposures to different factors.
