IDSB04H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: Marshall Plan, Female Education, Walt Whitman Rostow
23 Feb 2016
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Chapter 4 political economy of health and development. Body as a machine that can be repaired. Focuses on cultural attitudes towards lifestyle choices and changing personal conduct. Considers political, social and economic context for ways societal structures interact with certain conditions, leading to good or bad health. Health as a function of linked determinants that operates at multiple levels. Include above models but are not reduced down to them o o. Wealthier is healthier does not pan out; about redistribution. Female education is factor associated with low mortality rates, as function of social redistribution. Social structures (relations of power) are determined by economic forces o. Political and economic intertwined with social and individual. Relationship among working and living conditions and poverty with tb. Industrialization and product maximization lead to poor conditions, where powerful interests were not concerned with social conditions.
