Health Sciences 1002A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Upper Class, Racialization, Occupational Safety And Health
24 Apr 2018
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Did medicare result in a more equitable use of care: publicly-funded hospital and medical-insurance eliminated income as a determinant of access to health services (cid:271)ut . Improving equity of access to medical care and hospital services does not assure equity in health status across socio-economic groups. Study of health care utilization among 600,000 winnipeg residents. Social determinants of health (p. 70) the social and economic environments in which people live and that determine their health. Housing material resource, also can be distri(cid:271)uted th(cid:396)ough go(cid:448)(cid:859)t. Employment and working conditions reflect wh study. Race > experiences of racism & how socially constructed. Aboriginal status > experiences of colonization: sdh reflect the quantity and quality of resources that society makes available to its members (raphael,2004) Recent context for sdh: studies of social patterning of health e. g. , Mortality and morbidity increase as occupational status decreases. 2 landmark studies: whitehall studies; black report.
