Intersectionality: Health Inequity And Covid-19 Flashcards
Healthism
Health is exclusively an individuals’s responsibility; neoliberalism in terms of health
Aligned with biomedical, curative, downstream determinants of health
Current health care system where if someone is injured they will float downstream and be caught by hospitals and health care. The hospitals being downstream demonstrates that they only care about your health when you’re ill. Not taking action to prevent someone becoming ill and floating downstream.
Upstream
Researchers who look into social determinants of health look upstream to prevent downstream health.
What is Intersectionality?
Where power comes and collides, where it interlocks and intersects. It’s more than additive analysis, it’s the overlapping of identities. When someone is affected by multiple forces and left to fend for themselves.
Covid-19 affected everyone, but had impact on those who already faced health and social inequities
Covid-19 Inequities
Why were there people suffering more than others because of Covid-19?
Pre-existing health, social, and economic disparities.
Systemic racism created barriers to opportunity, health and other safety measures.
People who were Nurses and Doctors in other countries were told to come to Canada, but then told their credentials don’t count so they were made to work in PSW and front line were Covid was more prominent
The true difference of power relations and how it’s articulated in health inequity
Low income neighbourhoods in Toronto were mainly comprised of visible minorities or immigrants. This showed that their socioeconomic status intersects with racial and immigrant status
Poverty is Intersectional
What was the data shown when it came to ethno-racial identity and income during Covid-19?
Lower income levels and people from racialized communities have suffered disproportionate amount of disease
Greater rates of disease in lower income neighbourhoods and lower vaccination rates
Prompted Hot Spots Vaccination Campaign
Awareness that those who are suffering from racism, xenophobia, are less likely to receive vaccines
Truth behind distribution of vaccines
What about physical activity?
Folks also suffered from lack of access to physical activity. Immigrants, racialized populations and low income earners bore disproportionate burden of negative consequences from risk mitigation measures
What was wrong with Active TO?
It closed down certain spaces to open up other spaces to allow for physical activity. The closing of certain spaces affected those who needed it the most, the racialized, low income groups.
Colonialism is the policies and practices in which one’s territory’s political power is used in another territory.
Colonialism
Imperialism is the belief that what I do or say is better than what you do or say
Colonialism is this but the actual act
