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Why does Monchalin believe there is a need for public health feminisms in the classroom?

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To expose students to diverse perspectives in public health

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Critical assumptions of health sociology

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  1. focuses on health and illness as social experiences
  2. examines health within its social and historical context, and as it is socially organized
  3. imagines health problems as social problems
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what insights are there from the aging video is we sub the word ‘health’ for ‘aging’?

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  • throughout our lives our health declines
  • health is biologically inherent
  • health = biological loss over time
  • ideas about decline/loss are correlated to the value of health
  • unhealthy = social exclusion
  • discriminatory/exclusion towards ‘unhealthy’ people
  • health is institutionalized
  • can be hard to understand/identify a health identity
  • health within it’s context is an embodied experience
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what social factors shape health?

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  • institutions
  • identity groups
  • some opportunities are available for some individuals but not others
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whats the sociological imagination?

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  • historical factors
  • cultural factors
  • structural factors
  • critical factors
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historical factors

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  • how has your family background or key past events and experiences shaped the person you are?
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cultural factors

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  • what roles have your cultural background, traditions, and belief systems played in forming your opinions and influencing your behaviour?
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critical factors

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  • have your values and opinions about what you consider important changed over time?
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structural factors

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  • how have various social institutions influenced you?
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Agency/structure debate

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  • are we just products of society?
  • to what extent do we control our lives?
  • how to we influence structures that influence us?
  • we have agency over our lives (structures) which in turn have influence over us
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Goals of the textbook

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  • recognize the intersectional experiences of marginalized groups in public health
  • interrogate why things are the way they are in health practice, policy, programming, and education
  • develop feminist approaches, tools and methods for investigating how public health in Canada is organized
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how is public health defined in Canada?

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  • the organized effort of society to keep people healthy and prevent injury, illness and premature death
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What is often missing from public health syllabus?

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  • marginalized and oppressed groups of women’s voices and perspectives
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what model is used by public health courses?

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  • western colonial public health models
  • focus on western examples while neglecting indigenous perspectives and knowledge
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What were some of the traditional knowledges mentioned in the “Covid-19: anishinaabe pandemic practices” film?

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  • making your own wooden dish
  • go back to the land (biggest healthcare system)
  • families need to self isolate when sick
  • plant and animal remedies
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What causes sickness in the “Covid-19: anishinaabe pandemic practices” film?

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  • greed
  • broken laws
  • straying away from traditional life
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What are other points the chapter makes about what needs to be taken into account when thinking about public health?

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  • diversifying healthcare
  • taking into account different perspectives that stray from the majority
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How does bell hooks define feminism?

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  • a movement to end sexism, sexist exploitation, and oppression
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How does Gloria Steinem see feminists?

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  • those who believe in the full humanity of all people
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How does Loreto define feminism?

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  • always evolving with white, upper class, albeist and racist roots
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what are the four waves of feminism?

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  • suffrage movement
  • gender discrimination and equal work opportunities
  • justice for all gender identities
  • digital wave addressing sexual violence
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health problems as social problems

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  • public health feminisms focus on all under-represented groups, not just women
  • social relations of health and illness
  • Monchalin tells a situated story about her upbringing
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In the “ a good brown nurse” chapter how did she find out about residential schools?

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  • by attending a workshop in the 1990s
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what is healthism?

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  • responsibility on the individual
  • represents a particular way of viewing the health problem
  • a preoccupation with personal health as a primary focus for the definition of wellbeing
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what is an example of healthism?

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  • constantly searching for new wellness products to try but not getting healthier/ not improving wellbeing
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healthism defined by Stacy overholt and amanda friz

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  • notion that a persons health is entirely their own responsibility and that failing to live “correctly” where your body is concerned leads to illness
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What is positioning theory?

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  • all text producers position themselves and others
  • the way people position themselves and others is based on larger storylines or cultural narratives that are relevant to their lives
  • positioning is an interactive social process; individuals are constituted through the various discursive practices in which they participate
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HIV vs womens health case study positioning theory

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  • HIV video was men speaking casually about male HIV
  • breast cancer video was a woman speaking more professionally about breast cancer in women
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What does Michelle Amri et al highlight in chapter 3?

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  • how there have been some policy initiatives to address gender issues in public health, but disparities still exist
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What do the disparities point to that Michelle Amri et al mentions in chapter 3?

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  • the lack of women in healthcare decision making roles
  • women are more likely to face health or economic disadvantages and are less likely to be economically or politically empowered
  • the need for more data and gender-sensitive research
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what does gender refer to?

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  • non-binary construct of characteristics, experiences, and expressions of individuals
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what is intersectionality?

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  • a lens to explore how various social and political identities intersect to create systemic discrimination and privileges
  • this approach recognizes the complexity of individuals with multiple intersecting identities
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what is goodkind et al’s framework for intersectional gender equity analyses?

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  1. analyzes power
  2. interprets population and phenomena in context
  3. attends to mutually constituted and interdependent category use
  4. considers whether there are strategic and transparent social justice goals
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Why focus on improving health and illness?

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  • inadequate care levels or unmet care needs
  • Canada had highest death rates in nursing homes of OECD countries during Covid
  • care workers reaching their limits or resigning
    -care crisis, care deficits, gender and intersectional inequities
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What is reproductive justice?

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  • emerged from black women’s experiences and subjected knowledges, which were excluded from mainstream pro-choice movement
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What does reproductive justice embody?

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  • a broad vision of reproductive rights, including
    1. the right to have a child
    2. the right not to have a child
    3. the right to parent in safe and healthy environments
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How is reproductive justice a matter of gender and intersectional inequity?

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  • barriers to accessing reproductive health services disproportionately impact racialized communities
  • access to reproductive health services for racialized communities is often ignored
  • abortion has a commonly been describes as a white womans issue which expresses a narrow focus on reproductive rights rather than reproductive justice
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What is the social history of reproductive justice in Canada?

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  • the criminal code was amended to decriminalize abortion in certain circumstances in 1969
  • protestors stormed canadian parliament and called for the decriminalization of safe abortion access in 1970
  • the supreme court struck down the restrictive abortion law through the morgentaller decision 1988
  • abortion is legal but that doesn’t mean accessible
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What are some barriers to abortion?

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  • lack of knowledge, geographic and financial barriers
  • services generally only in major cities
  • five provinces and territories in Canada have no rural access to abortion services
  • abortion stigma
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Ch. 9 main points

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  • use a reproductive justice lens to look at family laws related to LGBTQ family expansion
  • acknowledge that reproductive justice goes beyond abortion
  • need for full and equal inclusion of LGBTQ families in family laws
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Histories of public health (Virchow)

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  • if medicine is really to accomplish it’s great task, it must intervine in political and social life
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Origins of canadas medical care system

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  • 1824: the first medical school was established in Canada
  • 1832: the first involvement of the state in medical practice
  • 1910: the flexner report on medical education
  • 1912: the canada medical act is passed
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Emergence of the welfare state (1930s and 1940s)

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  • a system whereby the government assumes primary responsibility for the welfare of its citizens through programs designed to protect and promote the economic and social well-being of its citizens
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The development of medicare (1966), what are the 4 criteria

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  1. universality
  2. comprehensive coverage
  3. public administration
  4. portability
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Shift to public health and health promotion (1970s-1980s)

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  • ottawa charter for health promotion produced in 1986
  • health promotion funding in canada
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The ottawa charter for health promotion (1986)

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  • recognizes the importance of the health status and well-being of the general population rather than health of individuals
  • outlines pre-reqs and resources for health (peace, shelter, education, food, income, stable ecosystem, sustainable resources, social justice, equity)
  • acknowledges its not just about educating people about health matters, but about changing social conditions
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Privatization

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  1. home ownership
  2. contracting services
  3. privatization by stealth or inaction
  4. inadequate supply
  5. shifting supply
  6. shifting payment
  7. shifting work
  8. shifting dominant discourses
  9. shifting decision making
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what is privatization?

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  • involves shifting away from the public delivery of care services, as well as from commitments to shared responsibility, democratic decision making or public services for all
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Pharmacy work case importance

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  • ableism
  • negative outlook on disabilities
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Chapter 6 takeaways

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  • develops an argument: there is a push for diversity in healthcare professionals, but the chapter argues that without critically evaluating healthcare programs and addressing embedded ableist rhetoric
  • traces conceptions of disability
  • accommodation processess?
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occupational health (working argument)

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  • occupational health and safety issues need to be considered as issues of gender equity that negatively impact women
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work injuries and stress

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  • AB has the highest rates of workers injured on the job
  • the WCB reported 135,524 injury claims, and 161 fatality claims in 2021
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what health risks are associated with shift work?

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  • sleep problems
  • digestive problems
  • work-related accidents
  • psychological distress
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What do workplace injuries vary by?

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  • gender
  • occupation
  • industrial sector
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women exposed to more occupational health hazards

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  • teachers and child-care workers (diseases)
  • healthcare workers (radiation, disease, toxic chemicals)
  • women who work at home (cleaning with toxic chemicals)
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black feminism (Chapter 7)

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  • argues that the health of black women is sometimes treated as peripheral in feminist discourses within health sciences
  • advances a black feminist framework to reconceptualize black womens health in Canada
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moral boundary work (Pryma)

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  • work to position oneself as a member of a moral community
  • notes the concept came out of research showing how scientists engage in “boundary work”
  • clarifies what the concept meant in her research context or with this scope
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Situating the moral boundary study

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  • fibromyalgia: contested illness that some question the existence of
  • work: ideas about being lazy, not wanting to work
  • pain: skepticism towards womens pain or dominant stereotypes about black people feeling less pain
  • disability: ideas about disabled people being unproductive, lazy, dependent, and without value
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Black feminism (Chapter 7) principles

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  • standpoint epistemology: recognizing black womens expertise and experiential knowledge
  • intersectionality: examining how multiple social identities shape diverse groups distinct experiences, as shaped by structural relations
  • social constructs: examining dominant ideas and stereotypes as they shape health outcomes
  • social justice orientation: aims to produce knowledge for social and political change

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