SOSA 3143 Study Guide - Canada Health Act, Human Ecology, Crystal Ball
16 Jan 2013
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Neoliberal era: a political movement beginning in the 1960s that blends traditional liberal concerns for social justice with an emphasis on economic growth. All the elements of public health, from a balanced diet to decent housing, job security and job satisfaction are crucial in determining how well and how long people live. Corporate control of medical research and training, the misuse of scientific data for commercial gain, the generation and mistreatment of an epidemic of mental illness, and the newest frontier of capitalist accumulation turning of genes into commodities. Capitalist society works to create fear, but look like the hero with the breakthrough research, new wonder" drugs. Epidemiological transition- from infectious disease to chronic disease mortality. The sanitation drive was resisted by capitalists. Moreover the gain over time has been the greatest where incomes are most equally distributed, not where they are highest. Yet the only thing capitalism tends to do without fail is to produce and reproduce inequality.
