SES
A Gini coefficient of 1 indicates
What is complete inequality?
The movement of individuals out of a country to go live somewhere else, as opposed to "immigration"
What is emigration?
What is "health policy"?
The understanding that race has no genetic basis and is instead given meaning only through social structures.
What is social constructivism?
DOUBLE JEOPARDY
A system of social arrangements and meanings in society (e.g. "feminine," "masculine")
What is gender?
Could save 145,000 lives
What is universal high school completion?
The tendency for sick migrants to return to their home country.
What is the salmon bias?
Two common fallacies about health in the US
What is that it is up to the individual and that healthcare is the most important determinant of health?
What is commodity foods?
The percent of women in legislature in North Carolina in 2023
What is 29%?
The four criteria for something to be a "fundamental cause" of health disparities
Results in an unequal distribution of resources in the population
Involves multiple mechanisms
Affects multiple health outcomes
Mechanisms are replaced over time
This US phenomena explains in part why non-white immigrants' health advantage erodes the longer they're in the US
DOUBLE JEOPARDY
Offers health insurance to Americans 65+
What is Medicare?
A social system that systematically restricts access to society's goods, including work and fair pay, equal housing, quality schools, wealth, and so on, to members of socially constructed racial and ethnic minority groups through exploitation, exclusion, and policies/laws that have disparate impact.
What is systematic racism?
A socially patterned type of violence that largely affects young men.
What is gun violence?
DOUBLE JEOPARDY
Socioeconomic status (SES) is often measured using these 4 domains
What is educational attainment, income, wealth, occupational status?
The immigration of especially healthy immigrants to a destination country, as well as the emigration of especially unhealthy individuals back to their home countries.
What is health selection?
This group lead the opposition against universal healthcare in the early 20th century
This explains why racial minorities might develop and die from COVID more often than non-minority groups
What is weathering or the stress process?
This phenomena, characterized by risk-taking, is part of why men live shorter lives than women.
What is hegemonic masculinity?
Population health scholars take a _____ perspective to class, as opposed to a Marxist one.
What is Weberian?
This caused Mexican and Mexican-American babies to be born with low birth weights, but had no effect on white babies born in the same period
What is the 2008 Postville, Indiana ICE Raid?
Four strategies to reduce income and wealth inequality
What is raise minimum wage, Strengthen labor unions, Implement a more progressive tax system (e.g., taxing the wealthy), Implement a more progressive tax system (e.g., taxing the wealthy)?
Three examples of race-related flexible resources
What is freedom, power, prestige, social connections?
These two LGBTQ+ groups tend to have the worst health outcomes.
What is trans and bisexual people?