Nursing 1070A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Social Protection, Gender Mainstreaming, Health Canada
8 Dec 2016
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Evidence showed that key factors influencing health are: Overarching recommendations: improve daily living conditions, tackle the inequitable distributions of power, money, and resources, measure and understand the problem and assess the impact of action, improve daily living conditions. Set up interagency mechanisms to ensure policy coherence for early child. )ow policies must be consistent across levels of gov"t in regards to child. Ensure quality early child development programs for all. Provide quality compulsory primary and secondary education development. Manage urban development to ensure availability of affordable housing. Ensure urban planning promotes healthy and safe behaviors equitably. Counter the inequitable consequences of urban growth. Communities that have access to basic goods, are socially cohesive and promote good physical and mental well being (and protect natural environment) are essential. *place health and health equity at the heart of urban governance and planning. Majority of people live in urban settings (a first in the history of human beings)
