HLSC 2P21 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Determinant, Ecological Fallacy
2 Nov 2016
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Population perspective of health: what does it mean to take a population perspective? . Helps understand the distribution and status: total population as of july 2016 = 35 851774. Doesn"t tell us about patterns across various patterns of the characteristics. Continuing growth in canada is from immigration. Births maintain fairly stable but deaths is increasing slowly. Before it was europe being the majority of immigrants but over time it became. Asia having a dramatic effect on the population distribution in canada: immigrants are earning a living a rate below poverty in the rst 10 years they are here. Sex also has an effect on earning potential (women gain only a portion of what men make) has gone lower than 70% in comparison to 2001. Overall population measure is a proxy measure. Infant mortalitly is decreasing in canada overall, some provinces/territories stay the same, decrease or increase nunavut increased to almost 20% showing theres different health status/rating across canada.
