Equity and Social Justice Flashcards
What is equity?
Just treatment of individuals in their own social context.
What is equality?
Everyone has access to same resources and its equal.
What is health inequity?
Differences in health that are unnecessary and could be avoidable. They are unfair/unjust. Determined by structure in society.
How do indigenous people view water?
Sacred/necessary for life and living beings. Impacts of poor water can poorly affect of health.
What are the 4 determinants for health inequities?
- Exposure to unhealthy stressful living and working conditions
- Inadequate access to essential health and public services
- Health damaging behavior (choice is restricted)
- Health related social mobility involves tendency of sick people to move down the social scale
What is health disparity?
Statistically significant difference in health indicators that persists over time.
What is distributive justice?
Equal distribution of goods/services in society. Give same access/resources to different groups. Healthcare represent rights of citizenship but not a moral responsibility.
What is market justice?
Acceptance of inequity. People are entitled to goods/services that they acquire according to entitlement. Entitlements/privilege maintain inequity. Health care isn’t right of citizens or a moral obligation. Citizens who want it need to pay for it.
What is social justice?
Concern for equitable measuring of benefits/burdens in society. Health is moral obligation/right of citizens. Focuses on position of one group to other and root cause of disparities/what can be done to eliminate them.
What is emancipatory knowing?
Critical approach which examines hostile,social, economic, political factors which lead to social inequities then health inequities.
What are barriers to addressing health inequities?
Ideology of neoliberalism in western democracies, policy, focus on biomedical lifestyle, funding on healthcare (focuses on curative services rather than health promotion). Also nursing education (lacks knowledge in public policy analysis and political economy affecting SDH).
What is social inclusion/exclusion?
Participation or exclusion of material/psychosocial/political aspects of society. Structures determine oppression/privilege and access to wealth/resources/rights.
Social responsibility?
Value that includes awareness/knowledge/behaviour based on commitment to values. Nursing has social responsibility to address health of world, poverty, access to care, and environmental conditions affecting health.
How to promote social justice within practice?
Provide sensitive/empowering care at all levels and work to change environmental/social conditions that are root causes of inequities.
