SOSC 2150 Lecture Notes - Psychiatric Services, Fraser Institute
Document Summary
The social gradient theory of income across levels all vary. Issue of poverty and stats repeatedly show if you are poor, this has a significant effect on your health; you expect to live less and feel less well; risk of acquiring a disability. Being poor has a significant health effect. This health effect of poverty is difficult to overcome; if you"re a child born into poverty you may not be able to get out of poverty in your adulthood. Causes of poverty is a lifelong impact. Highly politically charged issue and the measurement has a statistical variant on who measures and calculates poverty. Stats can use low income cut-off when one tries to measure poverty. Low in-come cut-off (lico) double the rate of poverty. The stats canada approach to measuring poverty and that it did increase in canada in 1990"s and it"s been growing. Low income cut off approach is used by socio-income agency.
