UNIT 8: Racialized Communities and
Health (HTHSCI 1RR3) CORRECT 100%
Racism in healthcare - ANSWERIS a pervasive issue in Canada
Race - ANSWERterms for the classification of human beings into physical,
biologically and genetically distinct groups, assumes that humanity is divided into
unchanging natural types, recognizable by physical features
Racism - ANSWERa way of thinking that considers a group's unchangeable physical
characteristics to be linked in a direct, causal way to psychological or intellectual
characteristics, and which on this basis distinguishes between 'superior' and 'inferior'
racial groups"
Racialization - ANSWERIs the process (historical, social, political) of
constructing/constituting racial identities and meanings
Fanon and Goldberg (racialization) - ANSWERracialization includes the impacts on
the forming of understandings the body and the rationalization of hierarchy, as well
as the internalizations of these ideas of hierarchy and difference within the
power/knowledge relations that they (re)produce
what are things that are affected by racializaion? - ANSWERLabour, employments,
education and professions are racialized (have internalized meanings based on
racial ideas)
Racialized immigrants and specific health conditions - ANSWERcardiovascular
disease, cancers, occupational and environmental illnesses, diabetes, mental health,
HIV/AIDS, Intimate partner violence and domestic abuse
Racism and Health - ANSWERresearchers have proposed racism be seen as a
primary factor in producing inequitable health outcomes in racialized populations
Bias, discrimination, and stereotyping in health-care delivery- Francis (2001) -
ANSWERracial inequities in health, in access to care, life expectancy, mortality,
morbidity, health status, disease prevalence and incidence, utilization of services,
clinical outcomes, process of care, adequacy of pain management, do-not-
resuscitate orders, and end of life care, are evidence of society's tacit support to
notion of the "existence of hierarchies of human worth."
Individual racism - ANSWERpre-judgement, bias, or discrimination by an individual
based on race
Institutional racism - ANSWERpolicies, practices and procedures that work better for
white people than for people of colour, often unintentionally or intentionally
Health (HTHSCI 1RR3) CORRECT 100%
Racism in healthcare - ANSWERIS a pervasive issue in Canada
Race - ANSWERterms for the classification of human beings into physical,
biologically and genetically distinct groups, assumes that humanity is divided into
unchanging natural types, recognizable by physical features
Racism - ANSWERa way of thinking that considers a group's unchangeable physical
characteristics to be linked in a direct, causal way to psychological or intellectual
characteristics, and which on this basis distinguishes between 'superior' and 'inferior'
racial groups"
Racialization - ANSWERIs the process (historical, social, political) of
constructing/constituting racial identities and meanings
Fanon and Goldberg (racialization) - ANSWERracialization includes the impacts on
the forming of understandings the body and the rationalization of hierarchy, as well
as the internalizations of these ideas of hierarchy and difference within the
power/knowledge relations that they (re)produce
what are things that are affected by racializaion? - ANSWERLabour, employments,
education and professions are racialized (have internalized meanings based on
racial ideas)
Racialized immigrants and specific health conditions - ANSWERcardiovascular
disease, cancers, occupational and environmental illnesses, diabetes, mental health,
HIV/AIDS, Intimate partner violence and domestic abuse
Racism and Health - ANSWERresearchers have proposed racism be seen as a
primary factor in producing inequitable health outcomes in racialized populations
Bias, discrimination, and stereotyping in health-care delivery- Francis (2001) -
ANSWERracial inequities in health, in access to care, life expectancy, mortality,
morbidity, health status, disease prevalence and incidence, utilization of services,
clinical outcomes, process of care, adequacy of pain management, do-not-
resuscitate orders, and end of life care, are evidence of society's tacit support to
notion of the "existence of hierarchies of human worth."
Individual racism - ANSWERpre-judgement, bias, or discrimination by an individual
based on race
Institutional racism - ANSWERpolicies, practices and procedures that work better for
white people than for people of colour, often unintentionally or intentionally
