HLTH 101 Final: HLTH 101 Final Exam Notes
16 Sep 2013
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Considered minimum amount you need for food clothing shelter and others essentials: relative poverty. Feeling poor relative to those around you. According to hugh segal: poverty is, in the beginning and in the end, about not having enough money to live on with-self respect, dignity or hope. Marginalization: occurs when people are systematically excluded from meaningful participation in economic, social, political, cultural and other forms of human activity in their communities and thus are denied the opportunity to fulfill themselves as human beings unesco. Poverty rates for seniors are generally not effected by the economy. The cost of poverty: direct cost. Justice system, education, health care: societal cost, Wasted potential, lost tax dollars: human cost. Indignity, humiliation, shame, stigma, guilt, suffering: cost of homelessness in calgary. Estimated cost of emergency shelter, emergency hospital care, law enforcement and other social services for one homeless person. Estimated cost to provide supportive housing for one person.
