HLTC02H3 Lecture 8: Lecture 8.docx
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Overview y social construction y social exclusion y four perspective y biomedical y functional y environment y human rights-outcome. Groups who experience a form of social exclusion tend to have high health risks and flower health status: y aboriginal peoples y. Social exclusion y refers to structures and processes of inequality among groups in society which shape access to resources that influence quality to membership in society, and result in unequal outcomes. y. Graphs y aboriginals don"t live as long as non-aboriginals. This is a very important marker that they have shorter life expectancies. For women, its 5-6x higher than non-aboriginals which is very high. Its not the things they are not eating, it"s the food they don"t have access it. Europeans came to canada where they grew their own food. Marginalized from mainstream society after colonization. y their unemployment rate is higher than other groups. More likely to work in sales and services sector (lack of opportunity).
