PERS 3460 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Lgbt, Intersectionality, Eurocentrism
21 Nov 2018
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Review of sdoh - why we need to strengthen this approach: Canada a world leader in sdoh, but still signi cant inequities in health exist. Rethink our approaches, explore alternative ways to strengthen the sdoh framework. People living in poverty, higher rates of diseases. Lgbtq individuals face barriers, higher rates of homelessness and suicide. A theoretical framework for understanding how multiple social identities such as race, gender, sexual orientation, ses, and disability intersect at the micro level of individual experience to re ect interlocking systems of privilege and oppression (bowleg, 2012) Intersectional paradigm provides a normative framework that captures the complexity of lived experiences and concomitant, interacting factors of social inequity, which in turn are key to understanding health inequities. Key de ning features of intersectionality, including its explicit attention to power, are. Monday, october 1, 2018 illustrated to explore the ways in which this perspective can inform a more complete and nuanced understanding of health determinants.
