HLTC02H3 Lecture Notes - Gender Role, Hypercholesterolemia, Menopause
Document Summary
Lecture 6(5): gender, race, and public policy: gender, race, and inequalities in health, gender and race: social constructs, socially produced categories that enable society to make sense of the world. Health may be impaired by displacement, famine, and/or civil war. Somali women in diaspora- chronic physiologic stress (cvd risk factor) Few studies on cvd in somali women despite that somali women are exposed to multiple risk factors for cvd. Hypertension and hypercholesterolemia--- rampant among somali women: conclusions. Research into differences b/w african-americans and somali women. Contextualized lives cultural, dietary, epigenetic (heritable changes in gene expression)- and hardships assoc. w/ being in a diaspora and impact on their biologies. Intersectional analysis: how gender shapes and is influenced by conditions, practices, and relations b/w men and women, groups of women, markets, power and inequality, social, political, and economic context. For example, communication barrier can cause stress. How social determinants affect the access to health and other services.
