PSYD33H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: In Utero, Junk Food
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Lecture #3 social determinants of mental health. Social determinants of health share the conditions in which people grow, live, and work. These circumstances are shaped by the distribution of money, power, and resources at global, national and local levels. Social determinants: the type of area you grow up in, including whether it"s well to do or ridden by poverty and/or whether it"s violent or safe, working conditions. Do you work in an environment where your boss asks you how you are or where people are bullying you: family income. e. g. , poverty comes with malnutrition. When we don"t have money, we eat junk food because it"s affordable. Poverty is also associated with crime, no access to health care, and/or no housing security: gender. Women have faced barriers, which is slowly changing. To be successful, a woman had to be way better than most men, otherwise they weren"t given any credibility. They had to be superior to be looked at as.
