Health Sciences 1002A/B Lecture Notes - Residential Segregation In The United States, Social Exclusion, Infant Mortality

• School: Western University
• Department: Health Sciences
• Course: Health Sciences 1002A/B
• Professor: Jessica Polzer

Document Summary

There are inequalities in health between groups of races" (racial gradient) Healthy immigrant effect: new immigrants to the usa often show better health indicators than their us born counterparts, once people immigrate to the us, their health indicators decrease as they live in the us longer. Race: a social and political construct that is used to distinguish between and rank different groups of people on the basis of physical characteristics (such as skin colour) Example: the belief of the salt gene" that causes hypertension in african-americans from the seawater while being shipped overseas as slaves (not correct oprah) The idea of race is constructed by political and economic processes. Example: the declaration of independence states that all men are equal, so it did not consider. African-americans or slaves as human, so they were inferior. Example: policies created by the gov"t to assimilate natives into the european culture.