Health Sciences 1002A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: House Dust Mite, Ottawa Charter For Health Promotion, Radon
3 Apr 2017
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Examine housing and housing security within the canadian context. Gain an understanding of the filter effect. Housing is an absolute necessity for living a healthy life and living in unsafe, unaffordable or insecure housing increases the risk of many health problems. Routinely identified as not fulfilling those promises in the area of house: cancelled its affordable housing project one of the few in the world that do not have this . Lack of pressure, as a result, no turnover/ stop in the low housing market. Overcrowding way too many people living in a house together (large families or generational) creates a spread of infectious diseases at high rates, low income subsidized units see respiratory disease. Disrepairs of houses more common in specific populations especially in reserves (lack of availability of housing and building lack of clean water and sanitation) breaking point requiring immediate action: four classifications to housing issues:
