HLTA03H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 5: Domestic Violence, Intersectionality
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* disparities in health across a society can be illustrated by what is often referred to as the river story . * river story: story begins with a physician talking about what makes her profession challenging. Being a physician is like standing on the bank of the river while a drowning person a patient oats by. The doctor jumps in the river, pulls the person out and revives them. Just as she is done two more people call for help in the river. Again the physician jumps to save the drowning people as soon as she has revived them more patients come down the river. Physician concludes that she spends so much of her day saving people from drowning in the river that she never has time to see who is pushing them from upstream. * this parabola is used to demonstrate that health"s in uenced by. Upstream factors like the environment, social inequalities, poverty, sexism, and racism.
