HLSC 1F90 Lecture Notes - Lecture 21: Tobacco Control, Infant Mortality, Universal Design
7 Apr 2017
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Stats can data: from 1981 to 2011, life expectancy ^6. 2 years. Largest gain during this time was attributed to lower cvd arising from public health initiatives like tobacco control. Living in an apartment with mold: the community cannot be fixed by healthcare alone, take a direction towards community prosperity, affordable housing, local food, etc. Individual choices and health behaviours diet, smoking, physical activity, etc. - are the reasons that some people are healthier than others: personal choices about eating, drinking, smoking, being active are crucial to health. But personal choice is influenced by circumstances, environments, policies: accessibility of fresh affordable food vs. cheap fast food, well-maintained playgrounds vs. Noisy unsafe localities: health depends mostly on access to health services and treatments. In most industrialized countries, proportion of healthcare spending (relative to gdp) is rising. In 2010, canada spent about . 6 billion (10% of its gdp) on healthcare in 2010 up . 5 billion from 2009.
