HSS 2321 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Internalized Racism, Reproductive Rights, Institutional Racism
17 Jan 2017
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Social determinants of health are the circumstances in which people are born, develop, live and age. Disparity: healthcare disparities refer to differences in access to or availability of facilities and services. Health status disparities refer to the variation in rates of disease occurrence and disabilities between socioeconomic and/or geographically defined population groups. Inequality: a difference in health status or in the distribution of health determinants between different population groups. Inequality: health inequalities are avoidable inequalities in health between groups of people within countries and between countries. Daily living conditions: having a good education. Early child development: being brought up in a place with many resources. Is your child playing close to a junkyard where they can be injured. Fair employment and decent work: quality of place working. Universal health care: everyone has access to it. Inequitable distribution of power, money, and resources: dis(cid:272)ri(cid:373)i(cid:374)atio(cid:374) (cid:271)ased o(cid:374) eth(cid:374)i(cid:272)ity . Allocation of health resources: who"s gi(cid:448)i(cid:374)g out drugs.
