SOCIOL 1A06 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Postpartum Depression, Health Care Reform In The United States, Childbirth
28 Mar 2017
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Sociologist would look at the ways that health is socially constructed o. Structured by categories of social class, gender, race, immigrant status, etc. Positive relationship between socioeconomic status and health. Hierarchy stress perspective: we compare ourselves to other people and when we perceive that others are doing better than we are, that creates stress and that impacts our health. Gender and health: health is structured by gender, women have a longer life expectancy than men - that gap is narrowing, women have greater morbidity (disease and disability) - more chronic illness/autoimmune disease than men o o. This also applies to gender and socioeconomic status. Because of this ongoing stress, their health is negatively impacted: differential vulnerability hypothesis: women have less power, status, and resources. Women become vulnerable because they lack power/resources, and this compromises their health. Race and ethnicity shape health outcomes: aboriginals have poorer health outcomes, over time, immigrants experience poorer heath outcomes.
