Health Sciences 1002A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Intersectionality, Cardiovascular Disease, Social Exclusion
6 Apr 2017
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Examine current health services, discuss inequities within our health services based on structure, sdoh and geography, gain an understanding of what is needed to overcome inequities based on sdoh in health. What are the gaps in our health care system: dental surgery (insurance, access, prescriptions pharmaceuticals, waiting list, alternative therapies, feedback and accountability. Health care in canada includes: health care services, health promotion, public health, prevention. Health is related to a broad range of goods and services beyond health care (hospitals) Current solutions to health care inadequacies: money, however, increases in healthcare expenditures have not resulted in improvements in population health, population based statistics infant mortality rate, lifestyle factors. Why do you think more money means better health is not right: not fixing the root of the problem, but paying for cover, deal with acute problems but not the root/chronic/societal conditions is not improving, eg.
