HST209H1- Midterm Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 15 pages long!)
13 Oct 2017
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Study guide: readings for sept 18th, ottawa charter for health promotion: an international conference on health. Promotion: health promotion, enabling people to increase control over and to improve their health, reach a state of complete physical, mental, and social well being. Income distribution: employment conditions, availability of social and health services, self-rated health, see figure 6 on slide 11. Italy, netherlands, west germany, belgium, france: liberal, few redistributive policies, lower social expenditures, social programs tend to be means testsed, conservative/fascist, underdeveloped welfare states, poor social program, very unequal income distribution, spain, portugal, greece. Individualistic neo-liberal orientation reduces communal/collective empowerment: erodes social cohesion. Income inequality model: as income inequality increases, so do other forms of inequality and health and wellbeing decrease, social cohesion decreases, economic wealth decreases and inequality increase, hst 209 textbook notes sept 26th. Investigated relationship between capitalism and ideology of western biomedicine: feminism, criticize that theories fail to take into consideration women"s perspective"s, dorothy smith.
