HLTC24H3 : notes from lec 6
Document Summary
Housing situation of food bank clients: most are market rant and social housing and own home and shelter, with family or frds, band housing , on the street. Cancelled all spending on desperately needed new social housing. Downloaded its responsibility for housing programs to the provinces and territories. Locked into a downward spiral of decreasing spending. Housing as a socio-economic determinate f population health: Material dimensions- refer to reparie bio and chemical exposures in home. Housing costs , the most larges monthly spend, when that happen will effect other . Meaningful dimensions- refer to sense of belonging and control in the home, home is also expression social status. Spatial dimensions- refer to toxins in the environment . Poor housing is related to other indicators of disadvantage: Health inequalities are produced by the clustering of disadvantage in opportunity, material circumstances, and behaviours related to health across people"s live. Housing policy affects the quality of other social determinants of health:
