Health Sciences 1001A/B Chapter Notes - Chapter 5: Environmental Health, Social Capital, Asthma

• School: Western University
• Department: Health Sciences
• Course: Health Sciences 1001A/B
• Professor: Shauna Burke

Document Summary

Types: absolute poverty: less than min level based on cost of basic needs, relative poverty: less than average, subjective poverty: feeling they don"t have enough - > through surveys. Indicators: proportion of aggregate income earned by poorest proportion of households, ratio of income shares earned by upper 90th percentile to 10th percentile of households, other indices. Drawbacks: may not reflect: annual disposable income (after government taxes & transfers, households w/ more than 1 person: shared resources, volatility of income, accumulated assets or debts. 2: time required to acquire income, depth of poverty, duration of poverty, timing of poverty in life cycle: early childhood=bigger effect, confounders. Income inequality & health: refers to extent to which income is unequally distributed in a population. 3: montreal: poverty - > life cycle, infant mortality, lung cancer, fertility rates, psychological distress, suicide + neighborhood poverty. Chapter 4: income, income distribution, and health in canada!