HLST 3510 Chapter Notes - Chapter 8: Health Promotion

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27 May 2017
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Poverty is a primary cause of poor health among canadians. Risky behaviour play a relatively small role in shaping the poor health outcomes that people living in poverty experience. Identifying poverty as a cause of poor health. First, poverty and health have to be defined. Morbidity = incidence of a group reported each year. One way to identify relationships between poverty and health is to identify a group of people. More common with people living in poor urban income neighbourhoods. Aboriginals are more likely to be living in poverty. They also show a greater incidence of a range of afflictions and premature death from a variety of causes. Off reserve people rate their health status lower than the overall canadian population. Poor economic and social conditions are responsible for these differences in health. Women report more frequent long term disability and chronic conditions than men. Differences in men and women"s health may be lessoning.

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