HLTC43H3 Lecture Notes - Health Policy, Social Democracy, Upper Middle Class
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The political determinants of health lecture 2 monday sep17, 2012. Purpose: to introduce the political dimensions of health and review the state of scholarship on it. Allocation of resources- the amount of money spent on health. Shaped by action or inaction- social determinants of health are imendible to political. (governments can choose to do something about health issues or ignore them. Right to health?- un says we have a right to good, health but good health is an act of citizenship. Embedded in wider economic, social & political system- power exercised over health, health is one art of how these three systems are structured. In order to change system you need an awareness. In order th change the system you will have political struggle. Evidence of political influence on health outcomes- evidence political variables have an impact of health outcomes. Medicine is a social science and politics nothing but medicine on a grand scale rudolf virchow.
