HLTH 101 Study Guide - Chris Johnstone, Resource Depletion, Extreme Poverty

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Health Studies
• Course: HLTH 101
• Professor: Elaine Power

Document Summary

Smoking is disproportionately common among the disadvantaged. She is arguing this is a problem of social justice. Smoking is not just an individual problem. The disadvantaged are more likely to smoke and less likely to quit successfully. Less availability of nicotine replacements in places like indonesia. Higher prices for tobacco takes money away for other things. Professor, school of health policy & management @ york university. Widely recognized public health expert on social determinants of health, with over 150 publications. Composed of ideas, attitudes, beliefs that direct actions and practices. Dominant discourses are powerful, often excluding from view and understanding other discourses; generally only the dominant discourse is seen to be legitimate. Food security: exists when all people, at all time, have physical and economic access to sufficient, safe and nutritious food to meet their dietary needs and food preferences for an active and healthy life.