Exam Flashcards
What are the two most commonly discussed factors for health in our society
Genetics and Behaviors
What are some common characteristics of social determinants of health
Social living conditions
Non-medical factors
Ways of thinking about social and living conditions and their causes beyond just genetics
What was life expectancy in Canada in 1800’s
Below 40
What was the life expectancy in 1921
57.1 years
What was the life expectancy in 1950
70 years
What is the life expectancy now
82 years
What are the top 10 caused of mortality in 1881
- Smallpox
- Typhus
- Cholera
- Diphtheria
- Dysentery
- Measles
- Tuberculosis
- Typhoid
- Scarlet Fever
- Meningitis
What are the top 10 causes of death in Canada today
- Cancer
- Heart disease
- Stroke
- Chronic lower respiratory diseases
- accidents
- Diabetes
- Alzheimer
- Influenza and pneumonia
- Suicide
- Kidney disease
What are the difference between the top 10 causes of death in Canada from 1881 to now?
Now they are chronic diseases that take longer to lead to death than infectious diseases. We don’t smoke have access to vaccines and know whats healthy.
Who is the father of modern pathology
Rudolf Virchow
Who said this quote “Disease is not something personal and special but only a manifestation of life under modified pathological conditions
Virchow
What are the 3 low income disease mechanisms
- Material and social deprivation
- Adoption of health-threatening behaviours
- Chronic stress
Why should we care about SDH
- Pragmatic (helps explain patterns in the distribution of health and disease rates, supports the development of sustainable solutions, life course perspective)
- Job creation
- Ethical is a social justice issue, everyone has a right to live the healthiest life possible
What is code red
Explores the impacts that social determinants of health have on people in Hamilton
When was code red started
2010
How many difference in life expectancy in Hamilton
21
How much of the difference in life expectancy in hamilton is due to SDH and what are the 3
42% due to 3 SDH
Poverty
Acess to health care
Education
What is mothers too soon and when was it published
It is an article that talks about teen pregnancy in two neighbourhoods and was published in 2011
What are some of the risks of teen pregnancy
- Judgment and stigma
Reduces income and opportunities in education
Risks to the child being born
Die during first year of life
learning diffculties
leave school before graduating
In mothers too soon how much percent have lower birth weights in some neigborhoods
15%
In mothers too soon in Sherman wentworth neighbourhood how many moms were teens
1 in 7
What are some facts about the sherman wentworth neighborhood
Average household 36,000
1 in 4 adults dont have a high school education
What are some facts about the Burlington the orchard neighbourhood in mother too soon
Not one teen pregnancy in same 4 years
Average household income 106 000
2 out of 3 adults have university
What were some of the patterns across the province that were noticed in the mothers too soon article
- correlates to poverty
- opportunity deficit
- Limited support for and success in school
neighbourhood and family norms and value
Perception of healthcare and system providers
What are the 14 social determinants
- Abrioginal staus
- Disability
- Early Life
- Education
- Employment and working conditions
- Food insecurity
- Health serviced
- Gender
- Housing
- Income and Income distrubution
- Race
- Social exlusion
- Social safety net
- Unemployment and job security
True or false Canada is one in the two wealthiest conturies that developed the greatest income inequality
True
What are some ways to decrease income inequality
Increase the minimum wage and boost assistance levels
Progressive taxation
Greater degree of unionized workplaces
Policy implications to reduce the effects of education
Tuition fees for uni and college must be controlled by the government
In the reading, if Canada should adopt a food stamp style program to help with food insecurity what was the coluncsion?
That we should not adopt it as it will do very little to help and might even increase further harm
What is food insecurity
A measure of inability to access food
What are the causes of food insecurity
Global and economic forces, war and displacement environmental disaster and inequality
What does being food secure mean
Having the right calories and the right type of food to lead a healthy life
What percentage of Canadians reported being food insecure in the past 30 days
14.6%
How many households are food insecure in Canada
2.1 million compared to 1.2 in 2011
Who uses food banks
33% are children
32% have a disability
4% are senior citzens
What are the stats about the uneven distribution of food insecurity across social groups
- 20% recent immigrants
28% racialized black minorities
28.2 being aboriginal people
34% of households that are food insecure are headed by single mothers
What province has the highest insecurity
Nunvut at 57%
What are some systemic factors of food insecurity in Nunavut
changes in tradation dependendent on imports and povery
What percentage on social assistance in Nunavut
41%
What amount o households have emplyoment income that are food insecure
2/3
What are the disease that come from food insufficient households in canada
Diabetes 80% more likely
70% more likely to develop food allergies
50% more likely to experience high or low blood pressure
What article states that everyone has a right to standard living adequate including food
25
The great depression how many people were out of work in 1930
25%
When was the food stamp program put in place
1939
What was the food stamp program
If you pruchased a $1 organe stamp you could get a 0.50 blue stamp for free and the blue food stamp would go to things that were in a slurplus that way they didn’t have a complete ecnomic downfall
Who was the first person to stand in line
Mrs Mabel Mcfiggan
What was the new food stamp program SNAP
It was in 2008 and a bank card based to get rid of stigmitzed stamps and there were 40 million participants
What were the qualifications for the SNAP program
Had to be living under the 30% poverty line and not if your a student without a disability 1 person houselhold would get 204 a month and a 4 person household would get a 604 month
What is a paternalistic police
Procetcting the people who are governed or employed by porviding them with what they need but not giving them any responsbility or choice
What is the ratio of people who use a food bank who are insecure
1 in 5
What is the capability approach
Poverty is a moral wrong and you need to ctually fix the problem jobs are too low paied
What are 3 system level solutions for food insecurity
- Food insecuriy cut in half once recive old age
- Maybe subsidizing food for norther and rual communities
3.Newfoundland and Labrador 2006 poverty reduction stratgey
What systems make food insecurity a health issue
Part of the CAN med and Canadian nurse practitioner core competent be able to advise them on certain opportunities.
What is the special diet allowance
- supports those that have a medical condition that costs more money such as gluten intolerance
What are disadvantages of food stamps
- says the problem is a lack of food
still stigma
food stamps dont eliminate f.i
bureacuracy
indignities
paternalism/dependency
What are 6 things that defines a job as good?
Job security
Safety
Adequate conditions/ intensity
Opportunities for self-expression and individual development at work
Feeling one is a valued participant
Work-life balance
What percentage of people work in gig economy
8%
What is intensification and what are the stats
Increased expectations that work be completed at a greater speed with greater effort and on a tight deadline
2/3 of Canadians are working more than 40 hours a week
What country has the highest stat minimum and who has the lowest
Australia
Japan
Who has the highest amount of public holidays and who has the lowest
Japan has the highest
and Australia has the lowest
How many amount of North Americans who had vacation time did not take it
70%
What are the impacts of objective conditions on emplyoment
Being unemployed objectively reduces one’s income and ability to secure resources
How many Canadians are eligible for employment insurance
1 in 2 worker
What are subjective impacts for unemployment
Different individuals experience the objective conditions of employment in different ways
How are objective and subjective impacts of work also contextual
The work that we accept or need to accept the working conditions we face are all socially determined
Also how we respond to these conditions can be the result of social circumstances and status
What are the 5 potential pathways of job insecurity
- Injury
- Stress-induced physiological changes
- Increased risky behaviour
- loss of social support
- Inadequacy of income
What ratio of injuries that need medical attention occur at work
1 in 6
What job has the highest amount of work injuries
Construction and manufacation at 40%
How many people said there disability was due to work
25%
How many Canadians find most work days stressful
1/3
What is allostatic overload
Wear and tear on the body due to sress
What is the long arm of the job
Work spills over and high affects home life
Rather then compensating they replace
What is the scarcity hypothesis
When we are being used to much at work we become tired and start to emotional distance and absence from home
What are some negative impacts on family life with jobs
Parents mental health
Increase irritability in interactions with kids
Impacts on marital satisfaction
What are the gendered differences observed in a work home life balance
Its hardest on children when the mother experiences a WFC
Children recover faster when the WFC is with the father then with the mother
What is the fourth industrial revolution
Increased opportunity for gig work off shoring services and those who are tech savy
What is gig work
They are self-employed freelancers (uber eats, contractors)
What are some negative impacts about gig work
Unstable flow of income
Job insecurity
Privitaized responsibility for safety
What is the problem with digital skills being increasingly needed
Not everyone has the same access to digital upskilling
What are the issues with AI facilitated job recruitment
Discriminate against people who are less tech savvy
May favour body language of certain genders or cultural groups
What is worker vulnerability
Groups of workers who are exposed to structural factors (racism, ableism sexism)
What happened to Joyce Echaquan?
She had suffered severe stomach pain they called her stupid and only good for sex this is not the only case she ended up dying because she didn’t receive treatment.
What act protection from discrimination as a right of all Canadians
The Canadian charter of rights and freedoms
What are acts of discrimination
- Actions within systems of power that adversely affect populations directly and indirectly
- Often normalized and nautralized
What is racism at a structural discrimination level
Macro level conditions that limit resources opportunities and the well of less privileged groups
It is institutionalized, widespread and normalized
What are the interlocking patterns that are examples of structural discrimination
Housing
Criminal Justice
Public Health
Education
Banking
How many people in Canada who self-identify as belonging to a visible minority have experienced discrimination
81%
How many women have experienced racism
1 in 5
How many people in poverty identify with a racial group
62%
How much do racialized Canadians earn in comparison to $1 by non-racialized groups
81.4 cents
What ammount of members of the black community of Torontos population and how many of that percentage faced police charges
8.8% are apart of Torontos population and 32.4% faced police charges
How does individual discrimination affects one health
Higher chronic disease risk: diabetes and cardiovascular disease, reduced health seeking, higher levels of unhappiness, loneliness and depression
True or false that every income bracket in Canada harbours slightly better outcomes than the one below it
True
What is social deprivation
Not able to get jobs or schooling or participate in normal extra curricular activities need to accept risker jobs
Where do racialized identity and income intersect for disadvantage
Material deprivation: cant buy healthy or sufficient food
Neighbourhood/ housing conditions
Access to green spaces/ nature/ recreation
How does racism have an impact on health as a psychosocial stressor
- People anticipate negative interactions
-Being hypervisible and being more noticed or judged - Stress of worrying about loved ones navigating risks of discrimination
What are some ways allostatic load can wear down the body
Chronic stress, anxiety, poor sleep, increased risk for cardiovascular, suppressed immune system, anxiety, depression, hypertension, insulin resistance, decreased digestive actvity
What is intersectionality
People simultaneously face bias along multiple identity dimensions
How much higher were covid-19 cases in racialized communities
1.5 to 5 times higher
How much higher were rates of infection in first nations communities
69%
What is the she-cession
Covid-19 disproportionately impact women as they have both paid roles and informal roles of caregiving
How did the pandemic disporportionatly affect first nations people?
Indigenous people in Canada face up to 50% of heart disease and 2X more likely to develop kidney disease than non-indigenous people therefore Covid-19 is more dangerous for people with chronic conditions.
What are the three forms Bias comes in
- Interpersonal Interactions ( diagnoses, pain management)
- Internal dynamics (communication, collaboration)
3.Costs/wastes
Who declared climate change to be the greatest threat of 21st century
LANEET
In what year did LANEET declare climate change to be the greatest threat of 21st century
2009
What is anthroprogenic
originating in human activities, so climate change is from human activities
What does overheating of the body do ?
- increases respiratory problems+ dehydration (shared risk with young children)
- increase risk of heart attack and dizziness, exhaustion, falls
What is UHI
Urban Heat Island Effect
In UHI, why are the microclimates created?
- due to construction materials
-lack of ventilation - lack of green spaces
- -5 higher in certain areas?
What are vector borne diseases patterns
- when more insects are bread faster due to increasing heat causing a high population of them to infect
- infections transmitted by the bite of an anthropoid species (eg, mosquitoes)
What is the stat about vector borne disease patterns
up to 10x increase with every 1 degree celsius increase
What are examples of vector borne diseases
malaria, dengue, tick-borne and encephalitis
What was BC’s fire season and what was the record of being worse
- in 2021
- 3rd worst on record
How many fires and what is the area of the burning
- 16.000 fires
- 87000 square km
Why were there forest fires in BC
due to drought and heat waves
Where do wild fires thrive?
-dry vegetation+ hot weather and wind to spread on initial spark
What is Manitoba’s relationship to drought?
exceptional drought conditions
What is the stat regarding lightning in Canada regarding wildfires and how much is burned
- lightning causes 50% of Canada’s wildfires
- responsible for 85% of areas burned
Smoke increases air pollution which releases…
- sulphur dioxide
- carbon dioxide
- fine particulate matter (PM)
Symptoms of smoke exposure are:
- headaches
- eyes/ears/nose/throat irritation
- chest pain
- severe cough
- wheezing
- irregular heartbeats