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Inequalties in Health Flashcards

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What is the biomedical view of medicing

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Defines health as the absence of illness
Normal body state is healthy
illness tells us there is an active problem that needs to be treated

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What is the issues with this biomedical view of medicing

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It highlights western societies focus on curing the sick rather than preventing sickness from happening
also doesnt consider how a persons history, ses condition and background can impact their health

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What is the Biopyschosocial Perspective of wellbeing and medicine

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defines health as complete physical , mental, and social wellhbeing.

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According to biopsychosocial perspective health is the capacity to

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Adapt, respond, or control life challenges and changes

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Bio

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Relationship of diseasse and bodily health

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Pyscho

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Aspects of mental and emotional wellness that also relate to behaviour

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Social

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interpersonal factors such as social interactions and communitiy activities

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How is Health and Illness Socially Constructed

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Defintions of healthy illness and disease change over time by place per person

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Illness is not just genetics or biological

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it can be cultural

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What are social determinants of Health

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Circumstances in which people are born, grow, live, work, and age all influence their health/wellbeing.

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What are biological determinants of health

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Genetics, family predisposition, pathology, health status, bmi, birth weight, physicial fitness levels, age, sex, etc.

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What social factors greatly determine health, wellbeing, and illness

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The most important determinant is Economic Wellebiong aka Income

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What are other social factors thjat determine health other than income

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Education
employment and workplaces
housing/shelter
race,sex, gender, ethnicity

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What is medicalization

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The process in which conditions and behaviors are labeled and treated as medical issue that requires diagnosis, prevention or treatment

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When can medicalization occur

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New evidence or hypotheses emerge
changing social attitudes or economic considerations
development of new medications and treatments

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Who medicalizes a condition or experience?

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Medical and Pharmaceutical Companies
Media
Government
doctors
individuala and social groups

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Why has global life expectancy risen

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Because of advances in public health, technology and pharamaceutical cares.

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What is canadas death rate

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Canadas death rate is 7.8 per 1000 people

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How/Why is canadas death rate different?

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Becuase of the differences in how the healthcare systems are structured
canadas healthcare systrem is more accessible, affordable, and focuses on preventable care

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What is MMR

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Maternal Mortality Ratio which looks at the numbers of maternal deaths by recorded number of live births

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What does MMR Tell us

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Tells us about womens overal status, access to health care, and the responsiveness of the health care system to their needs.

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What type of countries have lower mmr

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Countries with more gender equity will have lower MMR

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Whats canadas Mmr vs USAS

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Canadas is 8.6
USA is 23.8
Black women have trhe highest mmr in the US
and the MMR in the US far Outstrips thjat of any other industrialized nation.

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What social group in Canada has the highest IMR

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Indigenous community

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Whos more at risk for IMR

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Lower income people, and mothers with less education

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What is stress process theory

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Linking social disadvantage to individual physical and mental health
social origin and childhood conditions influence later life health outcomes through physiological and biological pathways

Social forces like discrimination can generate stressors that acrivate adrenal horomones which can have adverse affects on the human body.

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What are Endemic Diseases

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Diseases that are constantly present within a population, things like hepatitis and Stis

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What is an Epidemic Disease

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The rapid spread of a disease to a large population ,community , region, within a short period of time

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What is a pandemic Disease

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A disease that spread rapidly to many countries and across continents, think of covid 19

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What does it mean that How we construct diseases as endemic, epidemic and pandemic impact how we respond to them

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Liike how aids was cosntructed as endemic only for gays, injectiond rug uses, etc, but now its a pandemic because of how many people it effects.

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What are the rates of mental disorders and illness in canada

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1 in 5 canadians direct experiences with a mental illness

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Who is most likely to be affected by mental illness

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Youth
men
poorer individuals have worse mental health
homneless indibiduals more likelyh to have disorders

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What is Co-Morbidity

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When a person has more than one disease or condition at the same time

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What are the impacts of mentall ilness on canadian socety

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Mental illness and suhbstance abuse are leading causes of disability in canada
cost of mental illness is over 50 billion per year
unemployment rates are high for people with most severe mental illnesses

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What are the inequalities in substance abuse and use

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There is a hyperattention on illegal substances which causes us to ignore social problems caused by legal substances

our views on drugs often depend on who uses them
Cocaine and MDMA vs Crack or Meth
Wealth and Racial Disparities

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What are the ineqwualtieis in suicide

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Suicide second leading cause of death for 15to24, leading cause of death for children aged 10-14
Suicide rartes highest among indigenous people.

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What are the inequalties in risk of Covid 19

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There are inequaltiies in the likelihood of cotnracting and dying from a pandemic between high income and low income countries, neighbourhoods, and persons

people living in impooveriished areas

black people and those in asian ethnic groups more likely

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What are health inquealities expereinced by sexual minorities

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Sexual Minorities report worse mental health than cis counterparts

lesbians and bisexual females are the most disadvantaged

39
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What is the healthy immigrant effect

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Observed time path in which health of immigrants just after migration but worsens with additional years in ne country

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Structural Functuionalism and Healh

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Sickness threatens the ability of society to work effectively, widespread illness undermine society
social insitutions resposniblke for perserving the health of socieities members
institutiuons use social control to deter unhealthy behaviours and encourage healthy behaviours

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Conflict thoery and health

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Health and medical services are goods that are unequally distributed among different social groups

health inequalities are the result of income, economic, and social inequaltities, inequalties exposed vulneravble populations to harm

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Symbolic Interactionism and Health

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Ideas meanings and labels for healthy and illness are socally constructed and expressed in peoples interactions with one another

symbolic meaning attached to mens health rather than womans

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Feminisim and Health

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Historically men have controlled womens bodies, as fathers husbands, and employers. theyve also controlled womens bodfies as physicisians by defining how women sysmptoms and their expreiences might be interpreted.

medicing has been based on male bodies and mens symptoms
tend to dismiss womens health complaints

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Functionalism and Vaping

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When vaping first came out was seen as benefit not seen more negative.

role in society?- social cohesion, smokers occupy sick role
gives new social roles
caused dysfunctions kills too many people

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Conflict thoery and vaping

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Who benefits from vaping? manufactuerers
portrayed as cool in media- false consciousness
Cigarette companies know its bhad yet continue to sell why? profit.

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