Women's Studies 2244 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Heterosexism, Class Discrimination, Social Inequality

• School: Western University
• Department: Women's Studies
• Course: Women's Studies 2244
• Professor: Jessica Polzer

Document Summary

Lecture 14 intersectional approaches to health and health care. Critique - when systems of privilege and oppression are examined in relation to health disparities, they are usually examined independently. Argument - why we need intersectionality as an analytic framework in health research, policy, public health and health care. Inequalities in health cannot be separated from inequalities in society. At the population level, health inequalities result from social inequalities and social exclusion. Social inequality: long lasting differences in power and resources among groups of people > materialize in patterns of health and disease. Social inclusion: the inclusion of marginalized and oppressed groups into existing socio-economic, cultural, and political structures as a means of redistributing wealth and power. Social exclusion: disadvantages/marginalization/ oppression are outcomes of social processes and not group traits; the structures, processes and practices through which particular groups are systematically excluded from participation in economic and social benefits and opportunities.