Health Sciences 1002A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Food Security, Health Promotion, Childhood Obesity
3 Sep 2018
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Housing as a social determinant of health: 90% of time indoors, 2/3 time spent at home, =significant impact on health, what is adequate housing, accessibility and quality housing. Mental health: damp, cold moody environment leads to depression, crowding leads to woman depression, psychological consequences- isolation, feelings of hopelessness and fear of losing their home. Determinants of population health: societal characteristics, total ecology, genes and biological, health behaviours, medical care, majority of death due to chronic disease, chronic diseases occur mostly in, infectious diseases more prominent in poor countries. Obesity national crisis: world health organization reports that obesity rates have doubled since. 1980 (who, 2012: more than one-in-four children and youth in canada are overweight or obese, childhood obesity can lead to long-term health problems later in life. Curbing childhood obesity: making the environments more supportive, identifying the risk of obesity in children and, addressing it early, increasing the availability and accessibility of nutritious foods.
