Health Sciences 1002A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Friedrich Engels, Infant Mortality
21 Dec 2016
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The political economy of health and health care. Marxism refers to a wide body of theory and political policies based on the writings of karl marx and friedrich engels: negative association with socialism and communism. Political economy - focuses on how political, economic, and ideological factors influence the distribution of power and other resources in a society, which in turn shapes individual experience and state policies: asks - Equity means providing support in a way that is relevant to the advantage of each individual. By providing resources for people (loans for small businesses) they remove our individual dependence on the market our need to buy everything for ourselves. Keynesian he was interested in employment in relation to the big crash in the 20s then the 1930s depression, how do you get society working again. He recognized that the gov"t had to intervene.
