HE301 Chapter Notes - Chapter Midterm 1 Material: Health Equity, Neoliberalism, Social Forces
Document Summary
Current themes in the social determinants of health field: theme 1: empirical evidence of the importance of the social determinants of health, the quality and distribution of social determinants of health explains: Onset of diabetes is primarily related to income not weight, physical activity: great indiciators of good health include reduction of unemployment, minimization of income, theme 2: mechanisms and pathways by which social determinants of health influence. Health: two primary mechanisms for understanding health inequality, cultural/behavioural, materialist/structural, cultural/behavioural. Conflicting interpretations of social determinants of health: continuing disproportionate corporate power in canada and how it influences a public policy like raising of the age of eligibility for old age security from 65-67 in response to economic crisis. Chapter 2: social structure, living conditions, and health. Individual approach: primary factor for disease and illness is not always dependent on biomedical and behavioural risks. Materialist explanations for the social determinants of health and health.
