SOSA 2503 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Health System, Neoliberalism, Informal Sector

• School: Dalhousie University
• Department: Soc & Social Anthropology
• Course: SOSA 2503
• Professor: Fiona Martin

Document Summary

Sosa2503: guest lecture - formal and informal care at home: Demographic and social trends: home care. If you entered a hospital with a broken leg, it would be treated based on the nature of the injury. If you broke your leg at work (unsafe work environment), those social contexts of the work environment wouldn"t be emphasized in the biomedical orientation. The idea: you get a cast and you recover in the biomedical orientation. Medicare really fermented a focus on physician dominance within health care services. This gave force to the power of physicians in the health care systems. Those who are ancillary workers (clean hospitals, provide food) are unrecognized in the health care system. Since the establishment of medicare, the population changed by a bit. In 1971, 5 years after the establishment of medicare, 8% of canadians were aged 65+. 2011 14%, and 2031 it is predicted to be 23. 1%.