HTHSCI 2RR3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Redistribution Of Income And Wealth, Visible Minority, Neoliberalism
18 Sep 2017
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Social exclusion and health: ethic minorities and newcomers. Poor social and economic conditions and inequalities in access to resources and services affect an individual"s or groups" health and well-being. Poverty is a key cause of social exclusion. Racial and gender differences in health status tend to reflect differences in social and economic conditions. Racialized community members, recent immigrants and refugees, women, men and their children, experience the psychosocial stress of discrimination and racism, which contribute to such health problems (hypertension, mental health and behavioural problems) Describe the structures and the dynamic processes of inequality among groups in society, which, over time, structure access to critical resources that determine the quality of membership in society and ultimately produce and reproduce unequal outcomes. Substantive disconnection from civil society and political participation because of material and social isolation created through systemic forms of discrimination based on race, ethnicity, gender, disability, sexual orientation and religion.
