WMST 1000Y Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Social Exclusion, Medicalization, Transphobia
2 Feb 2017
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The politics of women"s health: from medicalization to health care reform. This is a narrow understanding of health. Need to look at the social environment. Don"t work in a stressful low paid job. Be able to afford to go on a foreign holiday. Take up all benefits you are entitled to. Don"t live next to a busy road or factory. Makes us think more broadly about health. Assumes that: health is the absence of disease, medicine should focus on treatment instead of prevention, disease is located in the individual. Lack of languages that exist within the system. How these systems^ shape what goes on in the healthcare system. Healthcare practitioners refuse procedures for particular populations [ex. / people with sexually transmitted diseases. Barriers to health and health care: scenarios with people. Questions: what health issues might this person face, what health care services might they need, what barriers might they face in acquiring the health services they need.
