SOCA03Y3 Lecture 5: Health-SOC
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A state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity who. Health/illness not fixed binary opposites; self- fulfilling prophecies. Bipower (foucault); need to be responsive to individual patient needs. Social determinants of health (structural factors that influence health) Income: education, working conditions, housing, health services, gender, race, disability. 5 universal principles: universal, accessible, comprehensive, portable, publicly administered. Proportion of seniors (65 years and older) in canada is continuing to grow (part in success to medical) Aging issues in canada: transition to retirement, financial pressures, ageism, vulnerability to crime, preparing to die. Are you in favour or opposed to making physician-assisted suicide legal in canada for the terminally ill?": 2011: 67% in favour, 2015: 77% in favour. As of june 2016, bill c-14 allows medical assistance in dying (maid) under specific conditions: serious and incurable, advanced stages of irreversible decline, reasonably foreseen natural death.
