Nursing 3324A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Basic Income, Housing First, Income Distribution
28 Oct 2016
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Lecture 7 - poverty and health in canada. Social justice: fait distribution of society"s benefits, responsibilities and consequences. Nurses obligation to identify unfairness/inequity and their underlying determinants. We advocate for human rights and work toward a just society. Socially just conditions are a matter of life and death. Ind/fam without stable, permanent, appropriate housing, or the inability to acquire it in the immediate future. Aboriginal 3% of pop, but 10% of homelessness. Canada 12th for income inequity, 3rd highest increase compared to similar countries (taxation and low increases in wages, housing costs are contributing factors) Having no fixed address, or not having identification presents many problems regarding employment, or health services ect. Mix of ideal conditions can create a positive start to life that becomes sustained into adulthood. A disadvantaged start may not be overcome by sufficient changes in the environments affecting individuals lives.
