SOC102H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Gini Coefficient, Birth Weight, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder
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Highly correlated with sickness, crime and conflict. Disempowers: deprives them of resources (ex. income inequality) Disconnects: tends to isolate people, reduce trust, communucation, interaction. Many of us rely on info from others. Disinforms: giving people different amount of information. Our society runs on info so v. important. Devalues: as a society, we are very concerned about self-esteem, sense of worth, reputation. Different hospitals treat different patients of different classes differently. Found that: low income people shoved into portions of least functional, helpful portions of healthcare system, high income people more likely to receive same-day surgery. Bad because you can pick-up sickness from hospital. High income people tend to enter via. They also have a network of doctor people to help them: ex. poor people less likely to have personal physician. Low income kept in acute care hospital beds where bad sicknesses are.