Module 7 Flashcards
(13 cards)
EQUALITY vs. EQUITY
EQUITY= fairness
-making sure people get access to the same opportunities
EQUALITY= sameness
-giving everyone the same thing, can only work if everyone starts from the SAME place
______ must become before enjoying equality?
EQUITY must come before equality
Equality is also described as?
Distributive justice- nature of a socially even allocation of goods
When does structural social injustice exist?
“exists when social processes put large categories of people under a systemic threat of domination or deprivation, at the same time as these processes enable others to dominate or have a wide range of opportunities for developing and exercising their capacities”
What are the 2 important ways that distribution of income effects health?
Material deprivation and stress
What is the most “telling example” of health inequality within a country?
Mortality rate & life expectancy
Canadas vulnerable populations to inequity?
socio-economic status, aboriginal identity, gender and geographic location
How does inequity fit with a socioenvironmental perspective of health promotion?
Looking into socioenvironemental factors to promote health (SDOHs) will fix the inequities we experience in our population’s health
What are the main points of neoliberalism?
•Rule of the market: liberating “free” enterprise from bonds imposed by state no matter how much damaged caused
•Cutting public expenditure for social services (reducing safety net for poor)
•Deregulation: reduce government regulation for anything that could diminish profits
•Privatization: sell state owned goods and enterprises to private investors
•Eliminating the concept of “ the public good” or “community” (replace with “individual responsibility”)
oPressures poorest to find solutions for lack of health care, education and social security by themselves. Puts the blame on them if they fail
-RICH grow RICH, POOR grow POORER
How does the life expectancy of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders reflect the world’s health picture?
Socially excluded minority within country
How does poverty affect health?
Dirty water, poor nutrition, lack of quality care
Canadas vulnerable population?
Gender (woman), geographic location, socioeconomic status, aboriginal status
Neoliberalism is..
a set of economic policies
