HLST 1010 Chapter Notes - Chapter 17: Disability-Adjusted Life Year, Structural Functionalism, Medicalization
25 Feb 2015
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Health studies: complex field concerned with a wide range of phenomena, moves beyond epidemiology. It considers health, illness, and health care in a broader term: studies of health are concerned with how societal structures influence health, public policy- having a key role in influencing health status and the organization of health care. Prevention vs. care: care is more important than prevention, political economy make it hard to implement public policies. Private: privatized approach threatens health, impacts the vulnerable and the population as a whole. It also causes a lack of social resources: regulation of drugs have been weaken due to privatization. Limitations of those with disabilities and illnesses reflect the society"s failures to make accommodations to meet the needs of these individuals. Liberal welfare have means tested assistance, modest universal transfers, and modest social insurance plans: canadian public policy has been moving towards a neo-liberal model. Ideologies are malleable and national social policies can be changed.
