SOC260 Chapter Notes - Chapter 11: Audre Lorde, Health Equity, European Canadian
12 Dec 2018
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Fundamental cause theory resulted from house"s idea that in order to understand health inequality, we have to come up with a theory that focuses on macro-social factors as the main cause of disease risk. Ignores the importance of intersectionality (sees the above variables as completely separate from each other) Social class and ses: those who have more resources (income, education, etc. Adler: researchers pursuing psychosocial aspects of health inequality still acknowledge the effect of structural inequality on these factors the 2 approaches should be complimentary. Aboriginal population: aboriginals = 2x as likely as non-aboriginals to have kidney disease or heart disease, differences among aboriginals. Is much younger than na pop: related to oppression, life expectancy = 5-7 yrs shorter than for general pop, this gap is predicted to grow. Immigrants are partly selected based on health (healthy immigrant effect) (immigrant populations [especially from non-european countries] have better health and live longer than.
