Ethnic Inequalities Flashcards
Culturist expiations
Suggests that the cultural of ethnic minorities is reasonable for their poor health because it results in them making the wrong lifestyle choices in terms of.
Causes of bad health
Diet- use of ghee and carbohydrates in Asian cooking Smoking levels are high amongst Asian men Asian woman less likely to visit the post natal clinic.-this could be because theirs not enough female doctors.
Causes of bad health
Diet- use of ghee and carbohydrates in Asian cooking Smoking levels are high amongst Asian men Asian woman less likely to visit the post natal clinic.-this could be because theirs not enough female doctors.
What’s the inverse care law of Tudor Heart
Suggests that areas with the greatest need because they have more mortality and morbidity receive less funding
What does it suggest
NHS services are institutionally racist in that they are mainly focused on the needs of majority of white people.
Nazroo- Mental illness
Rastafarian are more likely to be hospitalised for mental health illnesses as the white medical professions don’t understand them
Rastafarians
Often refuse to co-operate, usually by refusing to communicate with the White authorities because they subscribe to religious views as white people are evil
Marxism on ethnicity
High rates of morbidity and mortality they note that the organisation of capitalism is the great inequality in wealth and income so poverty is more likely to be experienced by ethnic minorities As they tend to be from the working class
Institutional Racism
NHs services do not cater sufficiently for ethnic minority cultural and religious needs. For Example, asain women don’t go doctors because most of the doctors are male.
Racism
Causes illness and even an early death. To be racist means to he prejudiced or to racially discriminate against one
Dorling and Shaw
Poverty is more likely to be experienced by ethnic minority 40% of em live in poverty compared with 20% of white people
Kempaon
Poverty leads to stress, poor diet and nutrition, which increases the chance of illness and early death
Disability
Being unable to lead a normal life like that of able bodied normal people
Chesler- Mental illness- feminism
Women behaviour is more likely to be defined as mental illness because the diagnosis or labelling is normally carried out by males… This could be coz women visit doctors more than men
Rosenham- mental illness
Did a study which involved normal people volunteering to check themselves into pychiatric hospital claiming they hear voices and one who wrote a diary and was claimed they have a writing behaviour- labelling Theory
