Health Sciences 1002A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Bourgeoisie, Industrial Revolution, Infant Mortality
12 Nov 2017
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Social class (p. 61), social structure (p. 66) Publicly funded hospital and medical insurance eliminated income as a determinants of access to health services but. Improving equity of access to medical care and hospital services does not assure equity in health status across socio-economic groups. Created equitable access, did not produce equity in health status. Health is worse for those in the lowest income quintile compared to those in highest income quintile. Health indicators a number of ways to measure health: Subjective measures (self rated health) - self reported, subjective, single item (based on one question) or global response (combine responses to different questions) Morbidity (disease) - hospital/doc records, self-reported sickness, time off work, can be for speci c diseases or general levels of sickness, combined. Incidence - indicates the rate of new cases of disease within a speci ed period of time. Prevalence - indicates how prevalent/widespread the disease is.
