Health Flashcards
What are physical and mental health strongly influenced by?
Inequalities in terms of CAGEs. Health is strongly correlated with structural inequalities.
What are three things that the 1950s biomedical approach focus on?
Different biology explains different health/disease, individual lifestyle choices, failings of medical system.
What did the 1960s research that focused on stress and psychosocial risk factors include?
Self-control, self-esteem, personality, social support network, stressful environment.
What are social determinants of health?
Conditions in which people are born, grow, live, work and age, including the health system.
What are some components of social determinants of health?
Socioeconomic status, age, environment, rural/urban, race/ethnicity, gender, education.
What is the theory of social determinants of health?
Health, illness, life expectancy are not randomly distributed in society. The social structures affect social and material life, ultimately, they will translate to people’s health.
What is the main cause for health inequalities?
Income.
Link & Phelan’s studies look at what?
Macro-social factors causing disease risk, including race/ethnicity, socioeconomic status, age, gender.
Poverty is the main correlate of disease in the world. What can this include?
Unsanitary substandard housing, poor diet, absence of extra-curricular activities, material deprivation, cognitive problems, low education.
What is the health of the aboriginals in comparison to other Canadians?
Suffer from more diseases at a higher rate such as high-blood pressure, suicide, mental illness, poor dental health, tuberculosis. Life expectency is 7 years shorter, and 12 for Inuit.
What is the health immigrant effect?
Due selective screening of economic immigrants in Canada, the immigrant population is healthier and live longer than average Canadian-born.
What is hyper-segregation or environmental racism?
Over representation of minority ethnic or race groups in impoverished, dangerous and environmentally polluted neighborhoods.
What health problems do women tend to have more of?
More disabilities, more chronic diseases, more stress than men at every age, live longer than men.
What health problems do men tend to have more of?
Higher suicide rate, more risk-prone, are less likely to visit doctors, more unhealthy habits, more physically active.
Conceptions of masculinity leads to what?
To high-risk behaviors and to under use the health care system.
How do marriage and unpaid labour give benefits?
Marriage is a health protector for men, they are healthier and live longer. Dividing unpaid labour equally is beneficial for both women and men.
Causes of mortality differ by age. What are they?
Teen boys: suicide/car accident. Middling men: heart diseases/cancer. Third age: numerous diseases.
What is geographic isolation?
One of the key factors to obtain health services, hence low access for many First Nations people of Canada.
What are some social factors to health?
High education level, high income, extensive social support network, non-polluted environment, adequate food diet.
Lifestyle choices reflect what in connection to agency and structure?
Reflects agency. Structures and inequalities come from individual choices and access to health care, but especially class, age, gender, race/ethnicity.
