HLTC24H3 : lec 5 notes
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Lecture 3 social determinants of urban health notes. The focus of the canadian sdoh conference: early life education employment and working conditions food security health services housing income and income distribution social exclusion social safety net unemployment. It is one of the greatest of contemporary social injustices that people who live in the most disadvantaged circumstances have more illnesses, more disability and shorter lives than those who are more affluent. Benzeval, judge, & whitehead, 1995, p. xxi, tackling inequalities in health: an agenda for action. Health inequalities result from the differential accumulation of exposures and experiences that have their sources in the material world. Income inequality and mortality: importance to health of individual income, psychosocial environment, or material conditions. The effect of income inequality on health reflects a combination of negative exposures and lack of resources held by individuals, along with systematic underinvestment across a wide range of human, physical, health, and social infrastructure.
