HREQ 1930 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Institutional Racism, Pediatrics, Indian Act

• School: York University
• Department: Human Rights and Equity Studies
• Course: HREQ 1930
• Professor: John Kucharczuk

Document Summary

Epidemiology branch of medicine that studies the incidence and prevalence of diseases and attempts to identify their causes. The focus is on risk factors in an individual that causes unhealthy organs or disease. Either the individual has to take- up, modify or desist from some type of behaviour, or purchase a drug, etc. Patients experience care as a function of gender. Women have less power and less satisfying encounters with medical care. Women"s symptoms are more likely to be dismissed as psychological. For example, chest pains related to heart disease. W/i medical profession, women concentrated in family medicine and pediatrics: our course has argued that violence against women is abetted or perpetuated with the help of social institutions. Please identify three of those social institutions that are said to help perpetuate violence against women. Finally, please describe the ways in which any one of these social institutions can be said to perpetuate that violence against women.