SOSC 1801 Study Guide - Final Guide: Rofecoxib, In Essence, Canada Health Act

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How political, economic, historical and socio-cultural factors influence health, illness and healing and how illness is patterned in society according various forms of inequality, marginalization and power differences. By virtue of living in toronto for example, a person can be exposed to pesticides thus proportionately a cause of cancer. There are a lot of barriers that prevent us from looking at the environmental causes of cancer. Health and safety of occupations directly due to: inherent risks of a job, the way work is organized by employers/gov"t. I. e. , modern times not only was the work dangerous, but it was even more dangerous because of the pace that he had to work, asbestos, ship-breaking, There"s a class dynamic/tension between workers and employers inherent class struggle. Employers don"t have the same interest in ensuring workplace safety than the worker does it"s not the employer that"s affected, and the employer has an interest to push the worker to his/her limits to promote profit etc.

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