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SW 2401 chapter 9 and 10
chapters 9 and 10
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Social Work
Undergraduate 2
01/28/2012

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in hosptials what are social workers often a part of?

 

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multidisplinary teams
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what does the multi displinary prepective provide?
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a unique holistic prespective to health care
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what is the multi displinary prespective concerned with?
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the treatment of illness and the promotion of wellness the consideration of the social economic, spirital and cultual needs of the client
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what is there in Canada?
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a serious health gap between the rich and the poor
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in 2006 what did the Canadian institute for health information report show?
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an association between low incomes and pooer health outcomes
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higher than average median income neighbourhoods were more likely to show what?
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excellent or very good health and be physically active
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the average out of poclet spending on health care by the poorest 20% was what?
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scarce at 36%
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spending on eye care reached blank% in the richest 20%
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72%
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blank% of the poorest households went to the dentist
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29%
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blank% of the richest households went to the dentist
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64%
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blank and blank are at a greater disadvantage when it comes to healthcare
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new immigrants and visible minorities
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blank have the poorest levels of overall health
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aboriginal peoples
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in 2005 blank% of adults were obease and blank% of peoples were overweight
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12% and 27%
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in 2004 aboriginal peoples were blank times more likely to be obease or overweight as their non-aboriginal contemporaries
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2.5
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what is universal public healthcare?
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publically funded healthcare that is avaliable to all who meet requirements of eligibility
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prior to the 1940's access to healthcare was based on what?
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on one's ability to pay
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when did access to healthcare become a concern of the government?
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when illness threatened the supply of workers for industry
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blank and blank served the european populations in towns and military forts
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doctors and barber-surgeons
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blank provided in home care as midwives and caregivers?
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women
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in first nation comunities who undertook the curine of illness?
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healers and shamans
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by the late 1700's increasing numbers of immigrants and growing towns meant what?
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doctors provided more complete healthcare services to euopean populations
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what did it mean for First Nation communities
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Frist nation communities were confronted with new european illnesses for which their traditional methods were not equipped
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when was the firdt Canadian medical care school funded?
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1824
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what happened in 1869?
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legislation gave allopathic practitioners control over medical education
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who were excluded access?
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women
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what was one of the first pieces of governemnt health care regulation?
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a directive in 1832 by the upper canada sanitary commission and board of health pertaining to the quarantine and sanitation of immigrants infected with cholera
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what did the BNA act do?
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helped create the jurisdictions of the federal and provincial governemnts in delivering health serives
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what are pre-payment health plans?
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health plans sponsored by local governments industries and volunteer agencies from the 1880's to the 1950's. These voluntary insurance plans did not over all medical expenses and were avaliable only to those who coul afford premeiums
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by 1934 how many hosptial sponsored premimum plans were there? in how many proviences?
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26 and 6
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where was the first canadian blue cross plan formed? when?
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1939 in Manitobia
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what did the municipal doctor system do?
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paid physicians on an annual contract basis
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what did the heagerty and the marsh report recomend?
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comprenhensive funded health insurance 
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what did the marsh report detail?
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the need for comprenhinsive and universal social programs. the country should estlabish a social minimum a standard aimed at protecting the disadvantaged through policies social insurance and childrens allowances
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what did the Heagerty report propose
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a federally funded two stage health insurance scheme
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what did the royal commission on Dominion provincial relations produce in 1945?
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a series of proposals that called for the government to help finance health and social services programs in return for the provinces renouncement of their claim to income and corporate taxes
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who partically turned town the proposal by the Royal comission on provincial relations? Why?
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Ontario and Quebec because they thought the tax sharing forumla represented federal interference in provincial matters such as healthcare
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what were in place by the end of world war 2
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childrens allowances and unemplyment insurance
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in 1947 what was instituted in saskchewan?
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the first public insurance plan for hosptial services
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when was the hosptial and diagnoises services act passed?
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1957
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the federal government agreed to finance what % of provincial acute and chronic care?
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50%
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what happened by 1961?
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all provinces and territories had signed agreements with the federal gov't for limited in patient hosptial care that qualified for federal cost sharing
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what did the hall divorce disclose?
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that 7.5 million canadians did not have medical coverage. the report recommened a comprenhensive publically administered universal health service plan
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when was the medical care act passed?
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1968
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what did the medical care act provide?
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it provided provincial cost sharing of non-hosptial medical services
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what were physicians permitted to do?
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opt out of the plan and extra billing was permitted
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how did the 1984 canada health act change the funding structure?
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provincials systems must be universal and cover all medically necessary hosptial and physician services
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what is the primary objective of the 1984 canad health act?
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to protect promote and restore the physical and mental well being of residents of canada and to facilitate reasonable access to health service without financial other barriers
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what is the mandate of the comission on the future of healthcare in Canada?
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engage canadians in a national dialogue on the future on healthcare and make recconendations to preserve to the long term sustainability of canadians
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what did the rainbow comission report reccommend?
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expland public not for profit medicare to include homecare and pharmacare and to introduce a geniune system of primary healthcare
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what was the total healthcare expenditure in 2008?
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160.1 billion
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in 2005 what % of public funding for healthcare expenditures in Candian?
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70%
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how is the other 30% funded?
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private insurance and directly out of pocket canadians
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what is medicare?
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pubically funded universal health insurance in Canada delivered through hosptials, private physicians, and other health care providers
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what us public administration?
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the idea that a health care insurance plan must be administered and operated on a non-profit basis by a public authority
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what is comprenhensiveness?
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the idea that the planmust cover all insured health services provided by hosptials, medical practitioners, or dentists and where permitted cover services rendered by other pratitioners
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what is universality?
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100% of the insureed persons of a provience be entitled to the insured health services provided by the plan on uniform terms and conditions
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what is portability?
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residents moving to another provience must be covered during any min waiting period imposed by the new provience not to exceed 3 months
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what did the agreement "a framework to improve the social union for canadians" attempt to define?
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how power and responsibility would be delivered it also attempted to smooth relations between the federal government and the proviences following the fallout from the uniterlateral federal changes to funding in the CHST
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what us one of the biggest threats to out healthcare system?
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privitization
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how have some proviences tried to reduce spending?

 

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by reducing comprensiveness
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what does bill c-11 encourage?
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the estlabishment of provate profit hosptial
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what is there also a concern regarding?
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the contracting out of management to private companies in effort to create a profit
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according for the health information what is there a clear connection between?
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health and adequate housing
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what % of cnadians live in aduquate housing?
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70%
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why do canadian businesses also support public healthcare?
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it provides a competivie advantage with other countries, lower employee benefit costs,
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why have medicare costs been rising?
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because of the aging population
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what has been a major area of concern in healthcare?
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cost containment
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what do advocates of public health say?
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that keeping operating sosts under control should not be used as a justification for greater privitzation
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what did the governemnt recommend in the 1970's?
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the estlabishment of a network of community health centres
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what are community health centres?
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centeres the provide primary care, health promotion and prevention serives using salaried primary health care professionals
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when was the first community health center estlibished?
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winnipeg 1926
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what is an important advantage of the CHC model?
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the focus on prevention, education, community development, social action and health determinants
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CHC's tend to address what?
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living and working conditions, social support, individual behaviour, and generic makeup
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what is sexual assault?
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unwanted sexual activity forced upon a person without concent including physical- and non-physcial acts
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what is sexual harassment?
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any unwanted behaviour comment gesture or contact of a sexual nature falls under civic law
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what % of sexul assault cases resulted in a conviction?
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43%
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what is the % of women that are sexual assault victims?
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86%
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What is the Canadian association of sexual assault centres?
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a group of sexual assault centres from aorund Canada who have united in their common goal to implment the changes necessary to prevent and ultimately eradacate sexual assualt 
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blank % of feamle victims of sexual assualt were assaulted by a friend 
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40%
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blank % of female sexual assault victims were assaulted by a stranger
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23%
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blank % of feamle sexual assault victims were assualted by a family member
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23%
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what should a social worker ultimately do?
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support a woman is whatever decision she makes and provide her with the kind of support and education she needs to make a goo decision
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blank is one of the main areas where social workers intervene directly on behalf of women in need 
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violence
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what are the two other areas that social workers intereve directly on bealf of women in need?
Definition
women in poverty and women living with aids
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what does the term feminization of poverty refer to?
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the mounting numbers of women who are recieving social service across canada 
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over the past 20 years, the poverty rate for women has flucurated between blank and blank %
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12 and 20 
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blank remain the poorest family types in Canada 
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single mothers 
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blank % of single mothers live in poverty compared to blank % of fathers 
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38.1 % 11.9%
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blank % of senior women live in poverty compared to blank% of senior men 
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37.2% 28.9%
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the poverty rate of aboroginal women is blank%
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36
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blank % of all women of colour are poor 
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29%
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Africian Canadian women are the poorest racalized group in Canada with a poverty rate of blank %
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57%
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blank % of women with disabilities fall below the poverty line 
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26%
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blank are a key component of social work with women 
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support groups 
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when was the first aids case in Canada?
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1982
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in 2005 there were blank people in Canad living with aids 
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58,000
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women acocunt for blank% of new aids infections and make up more than blank % with HIV/AIDS 
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27% and 20%
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what is power theory?
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the idea that wife abuse is a societal problem that occurs because of the power imbalance between men and women 
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what is learning theory?
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the idea that violence is a behaviour learned in childhood 
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what is anger control theory?
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a theory that focuses on the idea that men must be held accountable for their violent behaviour 
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what is the cycle of violence theory?
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explains what happends in individual relationships in terms of a 3 step process 
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