Health

Question 1

What are physical and mental health strongly influenced by?

Answer 1

Inequalities in terms of CAGEs. Health is strongly correlated with structural inequalities.

Question 2

What are three things that the 1950s biomedical approach focus on?

Answer 2

Different biology explains different health/disease, individual lifestyle choices, failings of medical system.

Question 3

What did the 1960s research that focused on stress and psychosocial risk factors include?

Answer 3

Self-control, self-esteem, personality, social support network, stressful environment.

Question 4

What are social determinants of health?

Answer 4

Conditions in which people are born, grow, live, work and age, including the health system.

Question 5

What are some components of social determinants of health?

Answer 5

Socioeconomic status, age, environment, rural/urban, race/ethnicity, gender, education.

Question 6

What is the theory of social determinants of health?

Answer 6

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.

Question 7

What is the main cause for health inequalities?

Answer 7

Income.

Question 8

Link & Phelan’s studies look at what?

Answer 8

Macro-social factors causing disease risk, including race/ethnicity, socioeconomic status, age, gender.

Question 9

Poverty is the main correlate of disease in the world. What can this include?

Answer 9

Unsanitary substandard housing, poor diet, absence of extra-curricular activities, material deprivation, cognitive problems, low education.

Question 10

What is the health of the aboriginals in comparison to other Canadians?

Answer 10

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.

Question 11

What is the health immigrant effect?

Answer 11

Due selective screening of economic immigrants in Canada, the immigrant population is healthier and live longer than average Canadian-born.

Question 12

What is hyper-segregation or environmental racism?

Answer 12

Over representation of minority ethnic or race groups in impoverished, dangerous and environmentally polluted neighborhoods.

Question 13

What health problems do women tend to have more of?

Answer 13

More disabilities, more chronic diseases, more stress than men at every age, live longer than men.

Question 14

What health problems do men tend to have more of?

Answer 14

Higher suicide rate, more risk-prone, are less likely to visit doctors, more unhealthy habits, more physically active.

Question 15

Conceptions of masculinity leads to what?

Answer 15

To high-risk behaviors and to under use the health care system.

Question 16

How do marriage and unpaid labour give benefits?

Answer 16

Marriage is a health protector for men, they are healthier and live longer. Dividing unpaid labour equally is beneficial for both women and men.

Question 17

Causes of mortality differ by age. What are they?

Answer 17

Teen boys: suicide/car accident. Middling men: heart diseases/cancer. Third age: numerous diseases.

Question 18

What is geographic isolation?

Answer 18

One of the key factors to obtain health services, hence low access for many First Nations people of Canada.

Question 19

What are some social factors to health?

Answer 19

High education level, high income, extensive social support network, non-polluted environment, adequate food diet.

Question 20

Lifestyle choices reflect what in connection to agency and structure?

Answer 20

Reflects agency. Structures and inequalities come from individual choices and access to health care, but especially class, age, gender, race/ethnicity.