NSE 31A/B Study Guide - Comprehensive Midterm Guide: Primary Healthcare, Health Promotion, Health Equity
5 Oct 2016
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Reframing poverty as a matter of rights by elizabeth mcisaac. More than 1. 34 million children in canada living in poverty. More than 200,000 people experieced homelessness last year. 1 in 10 canadians unable to renew prescriptions to be healthy. Every month, over 850,000 canadians visit a food bank. Advances are a product of political will and individual leadership change in leadership can undo progress. Economic and community wealth building approach demonstrates cost of poverty in terms of lost productivity and focuses on strengthening capacity and resilience. Social justice approach highlights issues of inequality based on income, race, disability, or gender. Each approach protected people from cold, put food on the table, provided scholarships, inspired corporations to do business differently, and built foundations for stronger communities, put in place measures such as child benefits and guaranteed. Still there are critical gaps a further approach could look at protecting human rights.
