NURS 287 Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: Health Belief Model, Logic Model, Main Source
4 Oct 2016
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Reutter, l. who do they think we are anyway? perception of and responses to poverty stigma pp. Stigmatization is entirely contingent on access to social, economic, and political power that allows the identification of differentness, the construction of stereotypes, the separation of labeled persons into distinct categories. The article explains how people living in poverty perceive their social and personal identities and the stigma or perception they face. People who are stigmatized are almost always negatively valued. Stigma that is directly associated with living in poverty can potentially influence health through such processes as distress and damaged conceptions of self as well as inadequate access to resources. Many of these people identified the source of their poverty as ill health, low wages, inadequate social safety nets ect. Stigma plays a key role in exclusion at moral, relational and economic levels. The health consequences of such social and economic exclusion can be really problematic (compromised diet, disability)
