Health Sciences 1002A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Type A And Type B Personality Theory, Food Security, Industrial Revolution
13 Mar 2016
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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 but . Improving equity of access to medical care and hospital services does not assure equity in health status across socioeconomic groups. The social and economic environments in which people live in that determine their health: i. e. housing, job security, working condiions, educaion, income, social class, gender, aboriginal status. Studies of social patterning of health e. g. mortality, and morbidity increase as occupational status decreases. 2 landmark studies: whitehall studies, black report. A gradient is really just a slope. Has to do with social class: measured by income, education, occupation. Composite measures: a combination of a bunch of different factors. Relationship between income and health follows a gradient. People with higher incomes have higher life expectancy (true for both males and females) It is not just the poorest and richest points that are of interest.
