Health Sciences 1002A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Wage Labour, Labour Power, Biomedical Model

• School: Western University
• Department: Health Sciences
• Course: Health Sciences 1002A/B
• Professor: Jessica Polzer

Document Summary

Lecture 9 - gender and the social determinants of health. Health inequities are rooted in those social relations of production (inequities: social inequities produced by economic inequities, health inequities are produced by economic inequities, all of this can be regulated by politics. Welfare state etc: historical forces that have systematically subjugated/oppressed certain people are also influential in current inequities. Intersectional analyses of social inequalities, race, and gender: Intersectional analyses look at multiple axes of power and oppression and how they influence one another to create particular experiences of health, suffering and health care. Gender is a determinant of health; gender intersects with other social determinants of health (eg class, income, or race: sexism intersects other axes of oppression. When thinking abt how people experience oppression/privilege we cannot just think of women or men but rather several groups intersecting and the specific differences in the experiences. Feminist analysis draws attention to gender discrimination: eg, gender wage gap.