Health Sciences 3400A/B Lecture 5: notes
23 Oct 2020
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Trouble on tap: the small town of walkerton, ontario, earned unwanted prominence when an outbreak of water-borne disease between may and june 2000 left at least seven people dead and hundreds ill. In an effort to discover what went wrong, the provincial government set up a public judicial inquiry, under the leadership of justice dennis o"connor. Ontario: this case addresses several policy issues, including: public vs. private roles in service delivery, accountability, policy instruments (particularly regulation), appropriate roles for various levels of government, and framing of issues. It can be divided into physical, biological, social, and cultural factors, any or all of which can influence health status in populations. 12% of disease burden: many researchers have found that the most effective way to achieve environmental change is to link the problem to a health outcome/issue i. e. showing relationship of the health effect due to environmental causes.
