IDSB04H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Health Equity, Whitehall Study, Universal Health Care
26 Nov 2012
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Idsb04 lecture 6 - societal determinants of health/ social inequalities in health. Data of life expectancy and gdp per capita shows the lack of redistribution through. Political economy framework (309: distribution of power, economic, social resources, shape health, class relations and structures of societies. Increase economic output: medical healthcare spending, examine societal determinants of health. Income p/capita life expectancy; health spending: countries that spend far less on health care have long expectancies. Political economy framework: look at imperical levels of how these interact. Individual experience (p 312: genetic conditions (outcomes socially mediated) It will not pan out because it does not take into account of environment conditions. Nature and nurture are linked: personal agency and decisions. Completely divorced from conditions that we live in (stress levels etc: behaviours, lifecourse trajectories. What you"ve experience with yourself in the past. Experience influence health along the life course. Living conditions (p. 313: water and sanitations. Piped water is more likely to be filtered.
