SOSC 2150 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Health Equity, Public Health, Central Link
14 Dec 2016
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Social determinants and their unequal distribution:clairifying policy understandings. Public health research on disease processes and health care interventions: includes both societal level influences on health (living and working conditions) and individual level risk factors (like health behavior) Poor quality population health has been associated with large absolute inequalities in mortality between socioeconomic groups. At a national level, too, a determinants-oriented approach is seen as providing a way of securing health gain and greater health equity. Polocies associated with positive trends in health determinants have also been associated with persistent socioeconomic dispairities in their distribution. Focus is on societies as a whole. The concept social determinants is directed to the factors which help people stay healthy, rather than the services that help people when they are ill. It"s new perspective on the health of canadians prepared the ground for the health for all (hfa) charter which in turn stimulated the wrld health organisation (who)
