SOC102H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Local Health Integration Network, Coronary Artery Disease, Rick Glazier
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Effects of social inequality: (1) illness and stigmatization. Have discussed income (class) inequality, gender inequality, ethnic and racial inequality, age inequality, sexual inequality, and international inequality. Answer: inequality disempowers, disconnects, disinforms, and devalues people. Disempowers by depriving people of income, influence, and authority. Disconnects by reducing social connectedness and depriving people of social contacts (or social capital) Disinforms by depriving people of useful information about opportunities. Devalues by depriving people of self-esteem and self-worth. Income inequality mediates these processes (and is well-measured), so we focus on income inequality. Recent study at u of t finds that. Patients from different income groups are hospitalized for different reasons. And different hospitals serve different income groups, in different ways. The researchers studied all hospital admissions in toronto examined data on all patients admitted between 2008 and 2010 to 20 hospitals in the toronto central local health integration network. Finding: poor people get the most funding-starved care.
