LEC 2: Class Presentations

Question 1

Ward 1 in Saskatoon

Answer 1

SDH: Health services
Ideas: Mental health and counseling

Question 2

Ward 2 in Saskatoon

Answer 2

SDH: Food insecurity
- No supermarket

Ideas:

• Transportation program to be available for people who need to get to the grocery store for a lower cost/free
• Can provide pamphlets and information with recipes and nutritional information

Question 3

Ward 3 in Saskatoon

Answer 3

SDH: Health services

Ideas:

• More frequent buses
• Re-crediting bus passess
• SWITCH/ students can go to people who need health services or more student run clinics

Question 4

Ward 4 in Saskatoon

Answer 4

SDH: Health services

• No access
• Poor transit
• High refuge and immigrant population

Ideas:

• After hours volunteer based health services
• Provide health teaching and education about other health services
• Affordable healthcare
• Accessible childcare services
• Educational resources
• Conveniently located

Question 5

Ward 5 in Saskatoon

Answer 5

SDH: Social exclusion

• Industrial area/ River highets
• Lack of transportation and social goods

Ideas:

• Petition for re-route of buses and more frequent
• Promote car pooling
• Tax break or other incentive to take the bus

Question 6

Ward 6 in Saskatoon

Answer 6

SDH: Food insecurity

Target:

• Students
• Homeless

Ideas:

• Education and information on current resources in area
• School food programs
• Community kitchens/ gardens
• Farmers marjet
• Food bank
• SK assistance program
• Increase knowledge and awareness for over all well being

Question 7

Ward 7 in Saskatoon

Answer 7

SDH: Income distribution
- Wide range of income

Target:

• Students
• Immigrants
• Young families

Ideas:

• Lunch sharing
• Winter warm clothes
• Vaccines
• Home education

Question 8

Ward 8 in Saskatoon

Answer 8

SDH: Job security/ housing

• Expensive housing leads to higher property taxes
• City wants to increase property taxes to 4.7%

Ideas:
- Make property taxes more gradual

Question 9

Ward 9 in Saskatoon

Answer 9

SDH: Housing affordability

• A score lower then 3.00 is considered affordable
• Average house cost is 450k
• Average income is 51k

Ideas:

• Re-zoning for higher density living to active lower purchases or rental cost
• Affordable housing reserve some of the $4 million that has been allocated could be used to implement our program

Question 10

Ward 10 in Saskatoon

Answer 10

SDH: Income and social status
- At risk for health related behaviours
- Risk in social engagement
24% of residents make more than $75,000/year

Ideas:

• Programmed education to parents and students regarding drug use
• Safe drug storage and disposal
• Communicate with children/ student education