SOC243H1 Chapter Notes - Chapter 10: Socioeconomic Status, Cardiovascular Disease, Traditional Medicine
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Aboriginal peoples, health, and healing approaches: the effects of age and place on. Introduction: stigma increases risk for deleterious mental and physical health outcomes, stigma is an important social determinant of health, stigma operates on multiple levels including 1) individual 2) interpersonal 3) structural. Methods: questions were asked and the results were summed to measure the level of stigma in the community, things such as socioeconomic status and education attainment were factored in. Challenge four: reference groups and comparability of self-reported health and symptoms. Cancer diagnosis as discursive capture: phenomenological repercussions of being. Introduction: traces the implications of how cancer can be experienced, social and psychological consequences of being positioned within some of the dominant discourses associated with cancer diagnosis. The role of diagnosis: concerned with the effects of how a medical diagnosis positions the patient in relation to. Discursive construction of cancer and its meanings: the cultural imperative to think positively".
