HLTA02H3 Lecture Notes - Tricare, North American Free Trade Agreement, Commonwealth Of Nations
Document Summary
Concerned with the conditions in society that produce illness and death. Health and illness cannot be understood by referring only to biological phenomena and medical knowledge. Instead, human health and illness are imbedded in economic social and cultural contexts. Branch concerned with condition that produce illness&death. Factors: nutrition, poor housing, are all safe working conditions. Material and social conditions that produce illness and mortality include: General concept that health and illness are not defined by medicine and certain other things influence our health. Health is more than a biological condition it is also affected by. The set of social and economic factors that influence the health status of individuals, communities, and populations. These factors, which include income, food, housing, employment, social exclusion, and access to health services, enable people to improve and increase their control over their health. Medicare: whole public and finance system of insurance. The most prized of all of canada"s social policies.
