HLTC02H3 Lecture Notes - Birth Weight, Medicalization, Malnutrition
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Primary caregivers which would apply more stress on them. Occupational health hazards= high stress, low control (low pay and few benefits) Low socioeconomic status: women live in longer periods of poverty than men. Depression: anti-depressants may not work and contain a lot of side effects. In the long-run can lead to more depression: addictive, tendency to overmedicate women and this is a cause of the monopoly of pharmaceutical companies and marketing techniques. Presumption that women are naturally caring and nurturing and therefore they are more accepted in occupations where women are caregivers and nurturers: emotional. Age and stages of roles and experiences of women and girls. Diverse influences on girls" and women"s health. Being in a low-income household, children are born w/low birth weight: life-course approach to health and illness: Accumulation of exposures to positive and negative effects. Latent, pathway or cumulative effects: experiencing material deprivation in childhood can have cumulative effects in later life.
