Culture & Health
Socially constructed – learned through socialization
What is culture?
Level of Prevention - e.g. Clean air and water
What is Primordial?
Goal is not to educate but promote behavior change
What is health promotion?
Based on family income rather than family costs – the family is required to spend 20% more of its income than the average family on food, shelters and clothing
What is Low Income Cut-Off (LICO)?
Structural, Systems, Individuals
What are causes of homelessness?
Instituional
Personally Mediated
Internalized
What are levels of racism?
Level of Preventon - E.g.Working with communities to have pesticide free lawns and gardens to protect humans/non humans from harmful chemicals.
What is Tertiary Prevention?
Use of shock – deterrence
Consequence focused
What are fear-based campaigns?
Created by Human Resources Development Canada, measure of income required for a family of 4 (2 adults, 2 children) to purchased a defined set of good and services (food, clothing, shelter, transportation, household supplies).
What is Market Basket Measure (MBM)?
The inability to acquire or consume an adequate diet quality or sufficient quantity of food in socially acceptable ways, or the uncertainty that one will be able to do so
What is food insecurity?
The systematic practice of denying people access to rights, representation or resources based on racial differences.
What is Racism?
Affects people differently depending in part on geographic and geopolitical location, and social location along axes of gender, race and ethnicity, socioeconomic status, occupation, and developmental stage
What is the environment?
Accessible, easy dissemination, lower barrier, portable, high reach
What are benefits of social media?
A relative measure based on 50% of the adjusted median national income
What is Low income Measure?
Not homeless but in a precarious situation, cannot meet public health or safety standards
What is 'at risk for homelessness'?
A preconceived opinion and way of thinking based on stereotypes, usually operates without our direct knowledge, and is embedded in our thinking
What is prejudice?
Level of Prevention - Action taken to identify a patient or a population at risk of over-medicalization to protect them from invasive medical interventions and provide them with care procedures which are ethically acceptable.
What is Quaternary Prevention?
The gap between those with means to access technology and those without
What is the digital divide?
Someone who works the equivalent of full-time for at least half of the year but whose family income is below a low-income threshold
What is "working poor"?
Living on the streets or in places never intended for habitation
What is unsheltered?
Discrimination backed up by systemic power (e.g. health systems).
What is oppresion?
Level of Prevention - Detect a harmful occurrence before it can cause more harm.
What is Secondary Prevention?
Time to develop, implement, manage, up keep, evaluate
What are challenges to use of social media?
People with diabilities (mental & physical), single mothers, racialized families, seniors, indigenous populations
Who are most likely to experience poverty?
Temporary or insecure accommodation (hotels, temp housing, couch surfing)
What is provisionally accomodated?