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SOCIAL DETERMINANTS: CANADIAN PERSPECTIVE
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BOOK SUMMARY1
Chapter 7: The Unhealthy Canadian Workplace
This chapter focuses on the aspects of a negative workplace that influences the work
pattern of employees. The effect of employment and working conditions affects the health of
individuals in the labor market, and this chapter aims at the quality of work. The researchers who
work in the field of health found a clear association between income and socioeconomic status
and the health outcomes, which means that the financial status adds to the physical and mental
wellbeing. Different workplace experiences show a different correlation between the income and
socioeconomic status that suggests that income of the lower spectrum increases stress in jobs,
workplace hazards, and vulnerability towards physical health. Studies have also shown that
people with poor workplace environment have more reasons to feel mentally and physically
deprived. A few of the threats to a workplace are dangerous and dirty jobs, laborious and
repetitive work profiles, stressful jobs due to the virtue of the pace, exercise of arbitrary power,
and lack of social guidance and support.
Chapter 9: Early Childhood Education and care as a Social Determinant of Health
The development of a child during early childhood influences their adulthood and later
life. It decides the wellbeing of the child, such as their health, mental capacity, competence, and
character that will be experienced in their future. Prenatal conditions, nutrition, interaction,
family attributes, economic background, physical environment, civil society, and community
have an impact on the wellbeing of a person as an adult, and this makes a person content,
successful, and resilient when they go on. This chapter explains that the childhood of a person
shapes them as an adult, which includes their physical and mental health. Early childhood
Education and Care (ECEC), which is a National daycare program in Canada when given to the
child outside the family, has an impact on their upbringing. A non-toxic environment, adequate