Health Sciences 1002A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Universal Health Care, Occupational Stress, Cardiovascular Disease
22 Sep 2020
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Income is associated not only with outcomes, but with determinants, including behaviours. Income determines access to various resources: housing, food, transport, medical care, etc. Income affects levels of stress, including chronic stress. Income affects both our environment, and the resources we have available to respond to these environments. Job and employment security: physical conditions of work, work pace and stress, opportunities for self-expression and individual development, working time, work-life balance, participation at work. A good job is hard to find : following financial crises of 2000s, rising unemployment and job insecurity. Intensification and casualization of work: number of part-time jobs increasing faster than full-time jobs, self-employed workers increasing faster than paid-employees. Health sci lecture 5 working conditions: cumulative effect: good/healthy jobs more likely to include coverage, less likely to have pension coverage, less likely to have sick leave and/or paid vacation time. In canada, rules that disqualify those who patch together work; haven"t worked enough prior to being let go.
