NURS1003 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Ethnocentrism, Structural Change, Verbal Abuse
Document Summary
Marginalisation has a negative impact on health because many marginalised people have poor access to social determinants of health such as income and education. Stigma is based on judgement and assumptions which may be inaccurate, negative and incomplete, but in all cases are unhelpful. Marginalisation: the social process of being made marginal (being separated from the rest of society, forced to occupy the fringes, not considered to be the centre of things, lower social standing) . Marginalisation affects equity in disbursement of resources (food, housing, wealth), access to services, programs and policies. Marginalised individuals, families, communities and countries experience poor health. Gender, poverty, homelessness, ethnicity, first peoples, racism. Marginalisation is a complex and multi-faceted process. Many lectures in this unit explain how and why marginalisation occurs. Marginalisation leads to por health outcomes and exacerbates existing health problems. Stigma: an attribute or characteristic that separates people from one another.
