SOSC 3121 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Lead Poisoning, Socioeconomic Status, White Flight
21 Sep 2016
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Whet moser reading crime= social health problem crime rates impact health outcomes. Prevalent in longworth, lawndale north and south regions. Northern region exposed to higher % of elevated blood levels in children. Historically these racial groups have a low socioeconomic status. Real estate, lack of housing stock, redlining, white flight. Abandonment of properties, unmanageable, negative cash flow, shortage of investment capital. Racism is reinforced by exclusion from society and oppression. Little village- developed into a commercial and residential hub. Mexicans did not experience same level of constraints or violence. *relatable to health care system and western medicine today. Fixated on pushing pills for short term and long term issues, seems to be a grey area on prevention involving diet and nutrition, lifestyle, holistic practices too are often ignored. Differential access to goods, services and opportunities of society by race , embedded in norms. Normative; legalized, made to seem natural, manifests as inherited disadvantages.
