FRHD 3090 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Preterm Birth, Child Poverty, Birth Weight
2 Apr 2016
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Health care in canada: what makes us sick (article) Do have medical access, but less help with social determinants of health. In poverty; tend to access levels of health care that are available: however; do need referral for specialists. Medicine has a professional duty to equal opportunity. Duty of: equal access to healthcare and decent living conditions. Canada criticized for human rights issues of aboriginal o. Financial demands for people living in poverty can trigger persistent and distracting concerns that impede cognition o o. Can really on focus on one thing at a time; increase risk of making faulty decisions. Financial demands for people not living in poverty were not very concerning. Study with farmers; financial situation influenced cognitive capacity o. Found that when financial situations were bad; had negative effect on cognitive capacity taken same people when financial situation was fine; cognitive capacity was fine. Preventable inequalities due to poverty evident by 6 years of age o.
