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Lecture 4: Social Stratification and Health Equality - Examining Health Disparities

Explore the impact of social stratification on health equality and understand the factors contributing to health disparities. Discussing race, income, wealth, and opportunities for improvement.

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Lecture 4: Social Stratification and Health Equality - Examining Health Disparities

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  1. October 16th • Sign in, deposit participation cards • Health Equity Quiz • Lecture 4: Social Stratification and Health Equality • Homework: • Anderson, Elijah Beyond the Melting Pot Reconsidered

  2. Lecture Four Social Stratification and Health Equality

  3. Health Equity Quiz

  4. Health Follows Wealth • How do we carry social class is our bodies? • The social determinants of health are: • income • wealth • Race • Status • and prestige • What is missing in the films analysis?

  5. Opportunity Structure Wealth High Income Good Neighborhood Good Schools Good Jobs Access to Health Care → → → → ↑ ↓ → → → →

  6. Effects: Race and Health • Infant Mortality and Premature Birth • Black Americans have more than double the rate of infant mortality and premature birth than White Americans • Disease • Obesity and Diabetes • HIV • Cancer survival • These health inequalities reflect inequalities in life chances and a structure of racism

  7. Our Health History • Economic and social policy in the US determines not only the health of our population, but the inequalities in health • Health positive social and economic policies of the past: • Universal education • 8-hour workday • Sanitation • GI bill and New Deal programs

  8. World Wide Inequality? • Pharmaceutical companies do majority of the research that finds new drugs and vaccines for many of our health problems • According to your reading, what type of drugs do they focus on and why? • How does “health follow wealth” for social problem diseases such as HIV/AIDS? • The former head of Merck said that companies should not be asked to solve health “social problems.” Do you agree?

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