HLTH355 Lecture Notes - Lecture 23: Food Systems, Social Capital, Built Environment

• School: University of Waterloo
• Department: Health Studies
• Course: HLTH355
• Professor: Sharon Kirkpatrick

Document Summary

Individual: food and nutrition knowledge, food knowledge: to understand the variety of foods within all good groups. Slide 44: the determinants of health and well-being in our neighbourhoods (barton and grant, 2006) Points below listed starting with center of circle moving outwards to outermost circle: people; age, sex and hereditary factors. Lifestyle: work-life balance, diet, physical activity, community, social capital, social networks. Local economy: wealth creation, resilient markets, activities, working, shopping, moving, living, playing, learning, built environment, building places, streets, routes, natural environment, natural habitats, air, water, land. *all of the above are affected by macro-economy, politics, culture, global forces as well as other neighbourhoods and other regions: global ecosystem, biodiversity, climate stability. Slide 45: pyramid: base: socioeconomic factors, cha(cid:374)gi(cid:374)g the (cid:272)o(cid:374)te(cid:454)t to (cid:373)ake i(cid:374)dividuals" default de(cid:272)isio(cid:374)s health(cid:455, clinical interventions, top of pyramid: counseling and education. As you move up the pyramid, increasing individual effort needed. As you move down the pyramid, increasing population impact.