HLST 1010 Lecture 9: Lecture 9 - The Impact of Social Inequality on Health Outcomes

• School: York University
• Department: Health Studies
• Course: HLST 1010
• Professor: Professor Kenneth Lam

Document Summary

Lecture 9: the impact of social inequality on health outcomes. Social strati cation: social strati cation usually refers to the ranking of individuals along a continuum of economic attributes such as income or years of education, measures of social strati cation are important predictors of patterns of mortality and morbidit. Surplus value: di erence between a worker"s wages (exchange value) and the value of goods and services he or she produces (use value). Since use value is (or should be) always higher than the exchange value, workers produce a positive surplus value through their labour: german philosopher-economist karl mark (1818-83) used surplus value as a measure of worker exploitation by capitalism. What are the fundamental causes of health i: health inequalities result from the di erential accumulation of exposures and experiences that have their sources in the material world.