SOC309Y1 Lecture Notes - Scapegoating, Public Administration, Visible Minority
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Social determinants of health: the canadian facts juha mikkonen, dennis raphael. Primary factors that shape health of canadians are not medical treatments or lifestyle choices but rather the living conditions they experience: these conditions = social determinants of health. These social determinants of health are often not under the personal control of people, and it affects things like cardiovascular disease, adult onset diabetes, and even the health of their children. Government decisions at the municipal, provincial, and federal levels create policies, laws, and regulations that influence these social determinants of health. Despite evidence that social determinants of health impact health, the policy decisions by. Canada compares unfavourable to other wealthy developed nations in its support of citizens through their lifespan: growing income gap, growing poverty, lowest spending on people with disabilities and elders. Adverse social and material living conditions = high levels of physiological and psychological stress.
