Week 2: What is Intersectionality

Question 1

Social catergorization

Answer 1

Leads to invisible oppression and priveldge
SDOH can be a series of labels that lead to this
Compare, provide status, social hireachy

Question 1

Who founded intersectionality

Answer 1

1989 by Dr. Kimbrele Crenshaw

Question 2

Why is intersectionality in healthcare important?

Answer 2

Allows for combination of activisim and scholarship in pursit of social justice. Tool for interventions
- It is beyond exploring the relationships between various factors and eiliminate social dependent constructs.
Vital in interventions at the macro level

Question 3

What is the old defintion culture?

Answer 3

• defined as the values , beleifs, and common pratices among a group of people.
• Canada is a multicultural society

Question 4

Culture

Answer 4

A process that occurs between people

Question 5

How can we use cultural sensitivty?

Answer 5

Individual health care providers can find and become sensitive towards a paitent and understand differences from the domiant norm.

Question 6

What is cultural competency?

Answer 6

Health care workers can have an understanding of the beleifs, values, and pratices of various groups. Learning what shaped their culture itself. Learns only about the stereotypes common to their culture.

Question 7

Outcome of cultural safety

Answer 7

Respectful engagement and focuses on how a certain group is percieved and treated. Depends on the social , economic, and political position of a group. Discrmination however creates risks. Address the power inbalances. More activly wishes to address the power inbalances and stigmas.

Seek to understand and be non-judgemental

Question 8

What is cultural Humility?

Answer 8

Process of self-reflection to understand personal and systemic biases and to develop and maintain respectful processess and relationships based on trust. Acknowledge yourself as a learner.

process of understanding one’s own biases and reflection

Question 9

Democratic racisium

Answer 9

When laws and polices reinforce the inequity and not serve social justice. Cultural differences used to explain these differences. Sturctural barriers help support these attitudes. Creates inequality.

Question 10

Social Location

Answer 10

The unquie psoition we occupy relative to the social enviornment. Shaped by social structures and creates oppression and privledge.