HLTHAGE 1AA3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Whitehall Study, Redlining, Lgbt
10 May 2017
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Individual identity wrapped up with overarching structural forces - contributes both to how we behave and how others treat us. A performance you carry out but also depends on how others act towards you. Although we experience it as individuals, our identities also carry social meaning. Race/ethnicity, class, gender, sexuality, and primary categories although others disabilities. Social structures pose unequal health risk for some more so than others. Women more likely than men to experience domestic violence (and subsequent harm) Stress, leaving a city, out of job, social support, behaviours to deal with it. How we experience and respond to health problems. Individuals with marginalized identities prone to greater health risks. Also known as ses - refers to person"s position within economy. Class background also relevant - identity does not necessarily change within a generation. In some countries class is extremely pronounced, less so in other places.
