Exam 19: Social Inequality and Health

Gagné and Veenstra's (2017) study shows the associations between diabetes and intersections between racial identity (Black or White), gender (female or male), and education level.

Throughout the past century, most deaths in the workplace were males.

What have researchers determined to be the major contributor to the gender gap in life expectancy in 2000?

A greater attention to minor signs and symptoms, and a greater willingness to take preventative and healing actions, may mean that health problems for women are less severe than for men of the same age.

In a 2016 survey, Black men were less likely to report heart disease than white men.

What are studies on LGBTQIA2S+ people in Canada limited by?

Is going to the doctor a gendered phenomenon? What explains this?

How are health and illness a product of dominant norms of masculinity and femininity? Cite the perspectives of two different hypotheses.

How do you think COVID-19 impacted the gender gap in socioeconomic status in Canada?

The word "race" did not exist until the 18th century.

In terms of morbidity, which of the following is correct?

What variable did Veenstra (2009) argue partly explains the association between Aboriginal identification and health indicators?

Education has a relatively low refusal rate on questionnaires whereas income tends to have a high refusal rate.

How do health differences vary between different social groups in Canada?

Which hypothesis suggests that illness starts a downward trajectory on the socio-economic status ladder?

The risk hypothesis and the healthy behaviours argument need to be considered in isolation from our common understanding of masculinity and femininity.

Since the 1920s, life expectancy has had a gender gap. Between 1996 and 2011, the gender gap _______.

How has your socioeconomic status impacted your own health-related behaviours? How might someone of different SES have behaved in a similar situation?

Elderly women are more likely than elderly men to die as the result of accidents like falls, drowning, or choking.

What is homophobia? How can homophobia manifest itself and how can this explain potential health differences between LGBT people and the heterosexual population?