health and identity

Question 1

what are racial survival strategies and what are the 2 we learned?

Answer 1

-they are strategies developed by POC to navigate face-to-face interactions
- 2 types: testing and masking

Question 2

what is testing?

Answer 2

the act of ‘feeling out’ members of other racial or ethnic groups to evaluate their level of racial tolereance

Question 3

what is masking?

Answer 3

self-preservation that takes on an explicitly racialized character
-POC wear a mask around people from whom they have not received indication of tolerance or comfort

Question 4

what is double consciousness?

Answer 4

a way of thinking about yourself through 2 pairs of eyes: those of white people and those of your own racial/ethnic group

Question 5

what is the looking-glass self?

Answer 5

when your self-perception and self worth are influenced by the perceptions of others onto u

Question 6

what is symbolic violence?

Answer 6

the process by which members of a marginalized group internalize and accept negative views about the group

Question 7

what are the 5 theoretical models of racial health disparities?

Answer 7

-racial-genetic
-health-behavior
-socioeconomic status (SES)
-psychosocial stress
-structural constructivist

Question 8

what does the racial-genetic model say?

Answer 8

-genetic/biological factors cause health disparities
-little empirical evidence for this

Question 9

what is the health-behavior model?

Answer 9

-behaviors voluntarily adopted by individuals cause health disparities
-little empirical evidence

Question 10

what is the socioeconomic status model?

Answer 10

-socioeconomic disparities cause health disparities
-explains some, but not all fo the health gap

Question 11

what is the psychosocial stress model?

Answer 11

-stress associated with institutional and interpersonal racism causes negative health disparities
-ex. hypertension, black Americans have a higher predisposition because of the stress they encounter everyday in their lives which makes their bodies susceptible to high bp

Question 12

what is the structural constructivist model?

Answer 12

-causal connections between race and health are difficult to make because race is a social construction
-supported by evidence

Question 13

what is the minority poverty hypothesis?

Answer 13

there will be larger racial health disparities between poor people than wealthy people
-not supported by evidence

Question 14

what is the diminishing returns hypothesis?

Answer 14

people of color and poor white people will generally have worse health outcomes; but, when compared within income brackets, there are still health disparities based on race

Question 15

why was the covid 19 vaccine less accessible in majority black and latino neighborhoods?

Answer 15

inequalities in preexisting health infrastructure made it more difficult to distribute; healthcare is already unequal so distribution of vaccines was also unequal

Question 16

where does the in sickness and in wealth doc. take place at?

Answer 16

louisville, Kentucky

Question 17

according to the in sickness and in wealth doc, how does stress differentially affect people at the top and bottom of hierarchies ?

Answer 17

people at the top of the hierarchy have less environmental stress compared to people at the bottom who have more stress

Question 18

what is race based medicine?

Answer 18

assumptions about different health problems/ rooted in belief that race is biological

Question 19

what are the authors recommendations for implementing race-conscious medicine?

Answer 19

teach medical students that racial health disparities are a consequence of structural (institutional) racism

Question 20

how do authors in the Cheah et al. reading suggest addressing the racism stemming from covid issues?

Answer 20

there needs to be increased attention paid to mental health needs of people experiencing increased racism related to covid