gender Inequality - ANSWERsex-based differences: femaile having a MI presenting with upper back pain/fatigue
gender inequity - ANSWERfemale gets sent home with no MI-work up
(5.8%) - ANSWERchild poverty rate for those living in couple families
(26.2%) - ANSWERchild poverty rate for those l...
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gender Inequality - ANSWERsex-based differences: femaile having a MI presenting
with upper back pain/fatigue
gender inequity - ANSWERfemale gets sent home with no MI-work up
(5.8%) - ANSWERchild poverty rate for those living in couple families
(26.2%) - ANSWERchild poverty rate for those living in female lone-parent families
While the wage gap is declining, it is still significant with men earning hourly wages
on average $31.05 and women $26.92 - ANSWER-eliminating various forms of
gender-based discrimination is needed to close the gap
1. pay equity
2. reducing extreme forms of poverty and social exclusion
3. provide national affordable childcare programs
4. improve access to employment insurance and create policies that make it easier
for workplaces to achieve collective agreements through unionization. -
ANSWERways to eliminate various forms of gender
gender-based inequity - ANSWERnon-racialized women earn 69 cents for every
dollar non-racialized men earn
race-based inequity - ANSWERRacialized men earn 76 cents for every dollar non-
racialized men earn, Racialized women earn 85 cents for every dollar non racialized
women earn
gender based + race based inequity (intersectionality) - ANSWERracialized women
earn 58 cents for every dollar non-racialized men earn
~63% - ANSWERhow much do women with a bachelor's degree earn more than
women with a highschool diploma?
~45% - ANSWERhow much do men with a bachelor's degree earn more than men
with a highschool diploma?
gender bias in access to federal research dollars - ANSWERreviewers selecting
researchers is more at a disadvantage to women
gender identity - ANSWERinternal awareness of gender
gender expression - ANSWERsocial expression of gender
Cis - ANSWERnon-trans
,non-binary - ANSWERdoes not identify exclusively with one gender
two-spirit - ANSWERindigenous term referring to having both a masculine and
feminine spirit
gender non-confirming - ANSWERexpression of gender that transcends
masculine/feminine stereotypes
gender dysphoria - ANSWERdiscomfort with the disrepancy between gender identity
and biological sex
4 times - ANSWERa women living in a high-income neighbourhood in Toronto is ___
more likely to have up-to-date screening than a recent immigrant of South Asian
descent who is over 50 and doesn't have a general practitioner
race - ANSWERterm for the classification of human beings into physical, biologically
and genetically distinct groups
racism - ANSWERcan be defined as: a way of thinking that considers a group's
unchangeable physical characteristics to be linked in a direct, causal way to
psychological or intellectual characteristics, an which on this basis distinguishes
between 'superior' and 'inferior' racial groups
3 forms: institutionalized, personally mediated and internalized
racialization - ANSWER-process of constructing/constituting racial identities and
meanings
-(ie. labour, employment, education and professions)
individual racism - ANSWER-pre-judgment, bias, or discrimination by an individual
based on race
institutional racism - ANSWER-policies, practices and procedures that work better for
white people than for people of colour, often unintentionally or inadvertently
structural racism - ANSWER- a history and current reality of institutional racism
across all institutions, combining to create a system that negatively impacts
communities of colour
researchers have identified numerous pathways to health inequities related to racism
- ANSWER- the psychological stress of living in a racist environment
- unequal economic opportunities
- inequitable access to education and other social resources
- lack of adequate housing
- exposure to environmental toxins
-engagement in risky health behaviours
- victimization through social trauma such as spousal and sexual abuse, and other
forms of violence
-mistrust of the healthcare system and under-utilization of screening programs
,healthy immigrant effect - ANSWERan observed time path in which the health of
immigrants just after migration is susbtantially better than that of comparable native-
born people but worsens with additional years in the new country
racialized immigrants and specific health conditions - ANSWER-cardiovascular
disease
-cancers
-occupational and environmental illnesses
-diabetes
-mental health
-HIV/AIDs
-intimate partner violence and domestic abuse
-other health conditions and outcomes
structural problems from the report from Saskatoon Health Region about Aboriginal
women being coerced into tubal ligation immediately after childbirth - ANSWER1. 16
Aboriginal women contacted the reviewers and seven interviews were completed
2. all women felt coerced into having a tubal ligation postdelivery in the Saskatoon
Health Region, most believing it to be reversible, either in the throes of labour or
immediately postdelivery
3. women stated they felt powerless to resist the coercion and have suffered
immensely as a result of having tubal ligation
4. report concluded that Saskatoon Health Region promotes racist and
discriminatory health care for Indigenous women
Brian Sinclair - ANSWER- died of treatable bladder infection in 2008 after being
ignored in the emergency department
- he was ifnored because they assumed he was homeless or intoxicated or just
hanging around
- he began vomiting and slumping further in his wheelchair, the staff did not consider
him to be in distress
- when the public intervened, the staff quickly quelled their concern by insisting that
Sinclair was either sleeping or intoxicated and not sick at al
typical minimalist responses for race - ANSWER-cultural competence training
-implicit/unconscious bias training
-data collection
solution to inequities and disproportionate access issues or disproportionate
pathologization and criminalization including methodological and political issues that
make the project of cultural competence suspect for over: - ANSWER1.
individualizing the solutions
2. essentializing culture
3. having impractical conceptual understandings
cultural competence - ANSWER-promotes a colour-blind mentality that eclipses the
significance of institutionaled racism
-resembles new racism both by otherizing non-whites and by deploying modernist
and absolutist views of culture
, unconscious bias - ANSWER-popular approach to diversity education
eugenics - ANSWERthe study of the agencies under social control that may may
improve or impair the racial qualities of future generations
eugenicists - ANSWERthe sterilization and institutionalization of the mentally
disabled all well as laws restricting immigration and marriage would improve public
health
house of commons debates revealed that early 20th century psychiatry propounded
the belief that persons with mental disabilities - ANSWERwere undesirable
immigrants because they were by nature degenerates, dangerous and dishonest in
disposition
section 3 of the Immigration Act of 1910: prohibited classes - ANSWER1. persons
mentally defective
2. diseased persons
3. persons physically defective
4. criminals
5. prostitutes or pimps
6. procurers
7. beggars and vagrants
8. charity immigrants
9. persons not complying with regulations
Dr. Helen MacMurchy's the Almosts: A study of the Feeble-Minded -
ANSWERpromoted eugenic ideas that advocated for segregation and sterlization to
eliminate the feeble-minded, their economic costs and their criminal threat to society
MacMurchy - ANSWERdeclared that the problem defective children could only be
solved if special education and medical inspection were complemented by restricted
of immigration
According to the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act, a foreign national is
inadmissible on health grounds if their health condition is: - ANSWERa) likely to be a
danger to public health
b) likely to be a danger to public safety
c) might reasonably be expected to cause excessive demand on health or social
services
blood and racism - societies of sanguinities - ANSWERkey ideological term that held
class, sexuality and race together was that of blood. Fostered the need to protect the
purity of blood
CPHA commited to a series of reforms in the following actions: - ANSWER-will
review and amend its systems and processes to eliminate those processes that
could lead to racist behaviour within the Association
-will undertake anti-racism and anti-oppression training to foster an environment of
cultural humility and safety
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