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Social Determinants Of Health Flashcards

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Why does the health care systems not determine the health of an individual

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The health care is not the sole determinant of the health of an individual the individual living and working conditions plays a larger role

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What is health

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A state of complete physical,mental and social well being and not just the absence of disease

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What are the social determinants of health

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The primary factors that shape the health of Canadians not medical or lifestyle choices but living and working experiences

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What did WHO say about health damaging experiences

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Damaging experiences result from a toxic combination of poor social polices and programmers , unfair economic arrangement and bad politics

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How income and wealth is disturbed, employment, health and social service, government polices all these shape what?

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Health

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How many social determinants of health are there

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17

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How does policy implications affect health

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To promote health and reduce illness require a focus in the source of the problem rather than only the symptoms

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What is the most effective way to improve health

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Improve the living and working conditions people experience, which reduces the social deprivation, psychological and physiological stress

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What has research said about longevity of health and income

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Longevity of health rises as income increases

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What is the greatest determinant of health

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Income

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What contributes to social exclusion, social deprivation and best predictor of health

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Income

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Suggest some means to help with income inequality

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Increasing minimum wage to living wage
Boosting social assistance for those that cant work
Progressive taxation
Universal programs and services
Formation of unions, unionized workplaces

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In what social determinant of health do Canada perform well on a national and international assessments but disparities exist among populations and regions

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Education

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How would education improve health?

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Education would improve the social ladder
More employment opportunities
Better access to economic and social resources
Better understanding of how one can promise their own health by their actions

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What increases literacy and understanding of how one can improve their individual health by their actions

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Education

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What are some ways to improve eduction

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Better funding and provision of proper curricula
High quality of child care
Reducing link between parents and children educational achievement
Reduction of tutu ion fees for people of low income

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How does unemployment and job security affect health

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The uncertainty about on retention and fear of searching for new jobs when one is lost causes high stress levels that affects the individual

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What are the consequences of unemployment

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Material and social deprivation
Psychological stress
Adoption of threatening coping behaviors
Linked to issues of depression, anxiety, suicide risk

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What percentage of Canadians have a permanent or full time job

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Less than 2/3

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Solutions to on insecurity

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National and international institutions should be mandated to provide the basic needs of employment
More research into the nature of unemployment
Unemployed Canadians should be provided access to income, training and employment

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Employment security, physical conditions of work, work pace and stress, working hours, chance for self expression are factors that

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Shape health outcome in work place

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Work employment associated with instability,lack of protection and insecurity is

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Precarious work a key dimension of workplace environmental related to health

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When people autonomy over their work and their ability use their skill are low but psychological deeds on them are high

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Job strain

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What does the effort reward imbalance model underline

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Importance of reward, when efforts are higher than rewards, it causes stress

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The extent to which people believe that their supervisor considers their viewpoint on discussion is

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Organizational justice

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When an individual level of education is higher than the skill she requires for coccupation- termed goal striving stress is called

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Status inconsistency

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High blood pressure, heart disease, depression and anxiety are linked to

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High- stress jobs

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What polices can improve Jobs and health concerns

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Government balance workers and their rewards
improve the conditions of employees
Unionization of workplace

29
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What influences overall health for the rest if ones lives, coping skills and overall health

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Early child development

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What is the latency effect in early childhood development

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Early childhood experiences, predispose future health
Such as stress and dieting during pregnancy can affect the child

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What is pathway effect

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When a child is exposed to a idk factor, it is not seen immediately but becomes clear later in life
Which may lead to limited learning abilities
Lower educational attainment

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What is cumulative effect

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The longer a child lives under material and social deprivation,the more likely they are to have developmental issues that’s may cause emotional and cognitive impairments

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What is the relation between early childhood development, employment and income

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The quality of early childhood development is social and economic resources available to parents d through the income form their employment

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What are some policies to help with early childhood development

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Government should provide affordable and quality childcare for families irrespective of income
High wages and social assistance benefits to reduce poverty
All Canadians benefit

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How do all Canadians benefit form improved early childhood development

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Improved community and quality of life, reduced social problem, improved Canadian economic performance

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What are the 3 types of household food insecurity

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Marginal hfi
Moderate hfi
Severe hfi

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Worrying about running out of food due to limited food selection or lack of money is

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Marginal hfi

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What is moderate hfi

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Consuming food poor in quantity and quality

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Experiencing reduced food intake or disrupted eating

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Severe hfi

40
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Risk of food insecurity is high in

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First Nation and Inuit
Female lone parent families
Females receiving social assistance

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How can government curb food insecurity

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Affordable healthy food
Increase minimum wage
Affordable housing and childcare
Keep tack of of food insecurity

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What social determinants of health have few Canadians studied yet it is vital

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Housing and homelessness

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What is the prime reason for homelessness in Canadians

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Lack of economic resources

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What are the effects of homelessness on health

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Overcrowding allows easy disease transmission
Risk of health problems
Greater physical and mental health problem

45
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Rent increasing faster than income
Few affordable housing
Homeless people being physically and mentally unhealthy

Theses are currently occurring in Canafda in relation to

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Housing

46
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What is FCM

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Federation of Canadians Municipalities

47
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Linking housing policies to income programs
Maintaining funding levels and prioritizing housing strategy
Increase funds for social housing programs are policy implications for

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Housing

48
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Forms of oppression that order institutional arrangements that marginalize groups in the society is called

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Social exclusion

49
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Specific Canadians not being able to be a part of Canadian life is

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Social exclusion

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Indigenous Canadians, immigrants, people of color, women, Lowe income Canadians, the disable are more likely to experience?

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Social exclusion

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4 forms of social exclusion

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Denial of participation in civil affairs
Systemic discrimination
Denial of social goods
Exclusion from social production

52
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What is a social safety net and examples

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Different benefit programs, that suppress and protect citizens during life changes that affect health

Family allowance, childcare benefits, pensions, counseling, employment training

53
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What requires a system based and human rights perspective. Behind genetics and individual biophysical factories- health care
What does this mean

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To understand inequality healthcare we need to look behind humans genetic and physicality, but a larger view of the systems in place and humans rights

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Canada has a universal healthcare system that protect people that not afford private care
What store the issues to this?

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Citizens cannot pay for non covered items like drugs, dental care
Long wait times
Income status impact healthcare

55
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Implementation of pharmacies programs
Strengthen Medicare systems
Dental care to low income families
Control use of ineffective treatments
Removal of barriers to health care
Are necessary to?

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Hello healthcare issues

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What policies can help with the issues between health and geography

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Research on the effect of pollution on human and environmental heath
Hold industries responsible for pollution and enact laws to control them
Note of the inequalities in different geographical locations by Canadian researchers should be taken note of

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What are some of the issues faced by disabled Canadians

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Workplace inability to accommodate needs of disabled individuals at work, reducing employment prospects

Women being more likely too be disables than men

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Differences between in reserves and off- reserves indigenous people

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Off reserve have higher income and and better education than on reserve

59
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Issues indigenous people face in Canada

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Higher poverty
High infant mortality
Food insecurity

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Why do women face more inequality than men

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Woman experiencing more adverse SDH
Women carrying more responsibility for rearing children, housed work and systemic racism
Lack of childcare that is affordable, forcing them to work

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Healthy Immigrant effect?

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Immigrants arrive in Canada and have better health than non Canadians but begins to decline as they stay longer in Canada

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What are the 3 typed of racism

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Institutionalized
Personally mediated
Internalized

63
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Explain the 3 racism types

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Institutionalized- government, societies inaction when there’s need
Personally mediated- prejudice and discrimination
Internalized- acceptance of stigma about your worth

64
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Economic and social deprivation
Socially inflicted trauma (physical, mental, sexual threats, verbal or acts)
Inadequate health care \
Ecosystem degrerdation
These have all experienced by:

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People in Canada because of their race

65
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Process by which nations, businesses and people are becoming more connected and interdependent because of increased economic integration communication and cultural diffusion is

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Globalization

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Go through quote son SDH in slides

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Gender, immigration,race, globalization, indigenous ancestry,disability, geography ,heath services,social safety net, social exclusion,housing,food insecurity,early childhood devaelopment, employment& working condition, job security,income , education, unemployment and job security are all what

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Social determinants of health

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