SOCI 230 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: World Health Organization, Hypertension, Allostasis
23 Mar 2017
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Social determinants of health: health affected by not just lifestyle, biology, or genetic inputs, conditions in which people are born, grow, live, work, and age affect health, too. Individual and population health outcomes affected by social and economic factors: money, power, resources, example: world health organization recognizes discrimination as important factor affecting physical health, direct: Increase allostatic land, weakens immune system: elevated blood pressure, increases cardiovascular disorders. Fundamental vs proximate causes of disease and inequality: proximate causes direct; lifestyle, diet, risk behaviors, exercise, seatbelt use, fundamental causes indirect, ses, racism. Racism in the health care encounter: racist treatment by health care providers as barrier to accessing health care, stereotypes of aboriginal people impact the care they receive, delayed or denial of treatment. Inuit midwives movement for reclaiming childbirth: all women get flown away from communities and families, now: medevac of women with medically high-risk pregnancies, only women with risk factors are flown south, e. g.
