HLTH 231 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Externality, Socioeconomic Status
13 Mar 2017
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Module 7: psychosocial & economic issues pertaining to overweight & obesity. What do these terms mean: psychosocial, relating to processes or factors that are both social and psychological in origin, psychosocial & environmental (contextual) problems together. Beliefs, thoughts, feelings and attitude held that we are not aware we hold (unconscious) Good predictor of discriminatory behavior: explicit bias. Beliefs, thoughts, feelings and attitudes we have and are aware that we have them. Identical employment applications accompanied by photos of average and overweight persons. Module 7: psychosocial & economic issues pertaining to overweight & obesity: overweight less likely to be hired, those hired, less likely to be promoted, tend to be paid less for same position/work. Weight bias in the health professions: study of healthcare providers, admit to negative responses to obese patients, ranked high behind patients with drug addictions, alcoholism"s, and psychological illness. Lazy, non-compliant, unintelligent, weak-willed: spent less time with patients, ordered fewer diagnostic and corrective procedures.
