HLTC05H3 Lecture Notes - Forego, Medicalization, W. M. Keck Observatory
Document Summary
Gender is a dynamic aspect of change and health: patriarchy= gender stratification between males and females where men are dominant and women are subordinate and having less power. Many health outcomes and diseases can be linked back to power and having less power and rights. Patrilineal= property and title are inherited by males only. Men live less because of the risk-taking behaviours throughout their life course which reduces the quantity of life. Cultural factors in female health (look @ slide 6: loss of power and less access to resources, reproduction and inequality. Women"s health particularly reproduction is being regulated by the state: occurred due to the creation of social stratified societies and state guidelines on women"s bodies. Women have children and therefore they have to take care of them and also other family that may either be elderly or infirm. More women than men living at the standard of income ( poverty as defined the government in canada)
