Unit 6: Relationship of Poverty and Health

Question 1

Governments and advertisers are guilty of ‘_____’ poverty in many industrialized nations

Answer 1

hiding

Question 2

What is poverty?

Answer 2

the state of being extremely poor.

Question 3

Minimum wages in industrialized countries often do not meet what?

Answer 3

the official poverty line

Question 4

With the Low income cut-off-LICO (Canada’s official poverty line), what has been increasing faster than wages? What does this mean for women in poverty?

Answer 4

• the needed income has been increasing faster than wages

- women are getting poorer overall

Question 5

In ____, BC had the highest level of individuals living below the after-tax low income cut-off(LICO)

Answer 5

2011

Question 6

In 2011, what percentage of BC residents remained the highest for 7 consecutive years

Answer 6

11% of BC residents

Question 7

What do most poor people in BC do?

Answer 7

work!

Question 8

What is the living wage? What is the living wage in van and vic?

Answer 8

it is the income/wage needed to meet ‘bare-bones’ expenses (rent, food)-no money for
‘extras’
16.74 Vancouver
16.39 Victoria

Question 9

What is the ‘depth of poverty’?

Answer 9

calculation of income gap (difference between actual wage and low-income cut off-this gap is the depth or level of poverty)

Question 10

-As of 2005 and presently in 2011, what it the rate of women in Canada are living in poverty?

Answer 10

1 in 7, 2.4 million

Question 11

What are women living in poverty are comprised of?

Answer 11

• Women headed families (51.6% of these women are poor in 2005)
• Senior women (41.5% of single, widowed, divorced women are poor in 2005)
• Single women under 65 (35% of these women live in poverty in 2005)
• women living with disabilities, aboriginal women, women of color, immigrant women, and migrant women.

Question 12

When mothers are poor, so are their children: more than _____ children live in poverty in Canada.
and poverty is strongly linked to poor _______________.

Answer 12

one million, scholastic achievement.

Question 13

What is a key determinant of health?

Answer 13

Income level

Question 14

What women and children living in poverty are

more susceptible to?

Answer 14

poor physical and mental health

Question 15

Women living in poverty are more likely to experience what?

Answer 15

violence and abuse

Question 16

Poverty is a barrier to ______ for women.

Answer 16

good health

Question 17

women are often blamed for their poverty and resulting health issues because poorer women are less ________ and ___________.

Answer 17

powerful and treated less worthy.

Question 18

women in poverty are more likely to birth babies or die, have longer hospitalization after birth, or be diagnosed with ______________.

Answer 18

long term disabilities.

Question 19

______ women have higher rates of death from a number of specific illnesses

Answer 19

non-white

Question 20

What goes hand in hand with poverty for which women.

Answer 20

AIDS

more often non-white women

Question 21

researchers often ignore the unique situation of poor women in their research, not seeing the
connection with between what 3 factors?

Answer 21

poverty, race, and disease (ill health)

Question 22

____ is only industrialized country lacking some form of comprehensive health care for all citizens.

Answer 22

US

Question 23

What is Medicaid?

Answer 23

US federally supported health insurance program

Question 24

What is Medicare?

Answer 24

health transport insurance

Question 25

What does WHO say is the key to reducing poverty?

Answer 25

better health care key to reducing poverty

Question 26

In 2011, WHO then suggests that reducing poverty (and violence) is key to ______ for women.

Answer 26

better health