Nursing 3310A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Global Arena, Non-Communicable Disease, Gradualism
27 Feb 2018
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In the video from mcgill university on the work of dr. jody heymann, they looked at living conditions of those living in poverty globally. What factor did they find was much more important than the health system in determining health? a)food security. b)environmental change. c)family planning. d)social conditions. 2 (cid:498)canada has a fragmented system of drug coverage across the country (cid:523)gr goire et al. (cid:884)(cid:882)(cid:882)(cid:883)(cid:524). To a very large extent, people(cid:495)s income, the kind of job they have, and where they live determine what type of access they have to prescription drugs. (cid:499) . What is policy: health policy is assumed to embrace courses of action (or inaction) that affect the set of institutions, organizations, service, and funding arrangements of the health and health care system. It includes policy made by the public sector (government) as well as policies in the private sector.
