HLST 1010 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Junk Food, Epidemiology

• School: York University
• Department: Health Studies
• Course: HLST 1010
• Professor: Kenneth Lam

Document Summary

Responses to critical thinking questions from chapter 1: epidemiological approaches to. More health benefits can be provided to make children feel safer, like following: The current trends in canadian political policies impact health by having some very important health-related costs not taken care of by health insurance, such as dental care and psychotherapies. Specifically, the latter is very important as more and more young children and teenagers are being diagnosed as having some form of a mental illness (i. e. depression, anxiety) everyday. Producing health is so focused on changing individual behaviours because it ignores the fact that money influences health care benefits, food insecurity. John snow was an epidemiologist who studied londoners who died from cholera during the outbreak; he found a direct correlation between certain areas and their drinking water. Snow suspected that the water was being contaminated by the effected people and so he remove the pump handles which were contaminated.