HREQ 1930 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Safe Sex, Health Equity, Social Integration

• School: York University
• Department: Human Rights and Equity Studies
• Course: HREQ 1930
• Professor: Saeed Hederalli

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Please answer the following questions as thoroughly as you can, using examples, when asked for or when appropriate, to support or illustrate your answers. Short answer questions: please explain the concept of medicalization. Answer: where more and greater areas of our lives and bodies are given over to medical intervention and authority. Answer: absolute poverty is a gross deficiency in basic living conditions such as food, housing, recreation and other life amenities and resources. Chronic stress is also a feature of absolute poverty. Relative poverty has to do with one"s socio-economic position in relation to the group. Relative poverty is a function of economic inequality: identify and discuss four variables (reasons) as to why women tend to be more susceptible to hiv/aids infections. Because women are still largely responsible for unpaid work in the home even when they work full-time outside the home, they are then burdened with a double shift : true or false.