Life Course Perspectives
Individual action within constrained choices
What is agency?
Neighborhood structure, environmental hazards, and migration
What are examples of proximate causes?
True or False? The gap between white and African American infant mortality rates is greater today than it was in 1950.
What is true?
Religion, educational systems, and families are examples of...
What are social structures?
_____ life matters for later life health
What is early?
Medical information and knowledge is informed by....
What is claims-makers and interested parties?
Children living in poverty are how many times more likely to have poor health, compared with children living in high-income households.
What is 7 times?
Berkman and Kawachi offer the idea that social factors contribute to health in what manner?
What is a continuum where small shifts can impact health?
High risk moments in development (e.g. young adulthood)
What are critical periods?
Phil Brown outlines two social construction perspectives in health.
What is social construction of medical knowledge? What is social construction of illness?
Complete this statement. "The child poverty rate in the _____ is more than double in _______".
What is the US?
What is France or Hungary or Norway?
As social status improves, health outcomes also improve.
What is the social gradient of health?
Positive experiences lead to further positive experiences.
What is Cumulative Advantage?
The professionalism of doctors' authority to have the power of diagnosis is an example of...
What is social constructionist perspective?
Inequality in health reflects more than genetics and personal choice.
What is a foundational principle of health equity?
20th century accomplishments include....
What is reduction in infectious disease? What is improvement in public water and sanitation? What is the rise in chronic disease prevalence?
Provides an understanding of how the social environment is embodied by our physical bodies and contributes to our health trajectories.
What is the life course perspective?
The social constructionist perspective....
What is the distinction between the biological component of disease and the social meaning of the illness?
According to Link and Phelan, this is the fundamental cause of health disparities.
What is socioeconomic status?
Material, Psychosocial, Cultural/Behavioral, Political Economy, and Life Course
What are the 5 theories of health inequality?