HLTC02H3 Lecture 10: Lecture 10.docx
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Study: poor health outcomes more for immigrant women than men. Study: looked at somalia women and their migration pattern and how it affected their life. Societal conversation on an issue, event, identify or other social phenomena. Systems of ideas that affect practices, public policies, the experiences that people with different characteristics go through. Set rules by which we are encouraged to live by in different social categories. These are ways we come about to certain groups. Discourse can exclude/renders health needs of gender and sexually diverse populations invisible. Female gender and as you keep adding to that (race, person of color, belonging to another minority group like religion, social class) also contributes to discrimination. Health sector people assume them to be heterosexual and don"t ask appropriate questions because of that assumption they make. Matteson wants inclusive public policy for these people in different identity categories. Top 10 things lesbians should discuss with their healthcare providers: breast cancer.
