Women and health

Question 1

Politics of the body

Answer 1

Practices and policies through which powers of society regulate the human body and the struggle over the degree of individual and social control of the body

Question 2

Bio-medical model

Answer 2

Model that has over evaluated certain aspects of health while undervaluing others

Focus is on being disease free;elimination of disease is central

Question 3

Population health model

Answer 3

Focus not on the health of an individual but health as a valuable resource; allows us to engage in productive lives

Evaluating a broad range of factors related to health

Question 4

Double standards of health

Answer 4

Treating an identical or substantially equal situation, trait, or behavour diffently based on race, gender, ability, etc

Question 5

Pathologization

Answer 5

the act of unfairly or wrongly considering something or someone as a problem, especially a medical problem: There is an ever-growing medicalization and pathologisation of fatness.

Question 6

Marginalization

Answer 6

treatment of a person, group, or concept as insignificant or peripheral.

Question 7

Victim blaming

Answer 7

Victim blaming rather than examing on the perpetrator or the systemic causes or cirumstances of a health problem