Health Sciences 3400A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Rural Health, University Of Western Ontario, Health Promotion
5 Nov 2016
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Definition of rural varies depending on where you live. Public health nurses - health promotion and illness/injury prevention: as a specialty - generalist, having to know something about everything. Phd proposal - how to women in the north stay health. What issues did they deal with and how did they manage those issues: food security and cost, transportation, specialized health care was too far, limited employment, wild animals, etc. How we can make rural health better in terms of policy: emphasis on treatment - think if they put more physicians and understand rural areas. Urban vote overlies the rural: so few rural members of parliament - get ruled in with urban people. Research chair for rural women"s health - uwo. 2003: policy is made in urban settings - made by people who don"t hospitals that they"ll be healthier - but they forget about the. Governments don"t talk about social issues - only buildings.
