NS111 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Reference Group, Etiology, Boil-Water Advisory
5 Oct 2016
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Includes individual attributes and physical and social environment. Social disadvantage= less access to health care, more frequently sick, earlier death. Generally speaking aboriginal peoples would be much more immediately concerned about heating, food, and clothing than middle-class notions of health . One consequence of the cultural and class divide is avoidance of interaction with alienation. Rights to traditional medical interventions (pg 70) Connections between health, education & community well being. Undermining self or cultural continuity= loss of ownership of the past and seeing the future as irrelevant. High community cultural continuity factors = higher well-being. ~805 of fn do not have safe water, have substandard housing or do not have proper sewage system. Past 10 years= 100 fn lived with boil water advisory. Homes 4 times more likely to be deficient than canadian population. High disparities in wealth can lead to poorer well-being of society as a whole.
