Experiences of being sick
An attribution that discredits the value of a person.
What is Stigma?
This particular outbreak exposed varying degrees of individual, systemic and institutional forms of stigmatization, discrimination and marginalization of African peoples.
What is the Ebola Pandemic?
Set of economic policies that have become widespread during the last 25 years or so, where the prevailing rationality is that problems are individualized to those that experience them.
What is Neoliberalism?
Subjective understanding of health that can be based on a range of factors, such as being free of illness or sickness, but also having healthy social relationships, adequate income, ect
What is Well-Being?
Set of actions that can set in motion for social change to occur and the active support of an idea or cause expressed through strategies and methods that influence the opinions and decisions of people and organizations.
What is Advocacy?
What are some impacts of stigma?
What are impacts on Self-Identity and/or Personal Relationships?
Hospitals and nursing homes, home-care services, diagnostic services, CAT scanner, MRI, pharmaceutical companies, medical tools/technology, laundry and food-packaging companies that supply hospitals are examples of this...
What is the Medical Industrial Complex?
According to Brenda Spotton Visano ______ needs to account for an analysis of intersectional experiences, spaces of exclusion, and inequality
What is Public Policy?
Personal experience of the person who acknowledges that they don’t feel well or as good as they could be.
What is Illness?
Charities, development NGOs, community groups, women's organizations, faith-based organizations, professional associations, trade unions, social movements, coalitions and advocacy groups are examples of...
What are examples of Civil Society?
Diagnosed by physicians and constructed within the powerful discourses of medicalization and biomedicalization.
What is Disease?
Large and growing network of public and private corporations that provide medical care and supplies/services for a profit.
What is the Medical Industrial Complex?
When food is not avaliable in sufficient quantities, quality, is unstable in supply, inaccessible, or unaffordable.
Using medicine not just as a return to non-diseased state, but to improve the body and mind through new technologies of medicine to reach a “new and better normal”. Transformative and not just restorative medicine.
What is Illness as Aspiration?
According to Merle Jacobs: Long-term as well as short-term thinking, an understanding of the points of resistance and the means to gain traction, the readiness to form alliances, and the flexibility to seize windows of opportunity are examples of...
What are examples of Effective Advocacy?
The idea that individuals are responsible for staying well and if they don't and become ill it's carelessness on their part is an example of...
What are Popular Cultural and Social Conceptions of Illness & Health?
Interrelationship between your body, your mind, your soul and society is _____ according to Merle Jacobs.
What are the Social Determinants of Health?
An example of neoliberalism and responsibilizing in Carlos Torres chapter.
What is Blaming people for their own Sickness?
What is face lift, tummy tuck, nose job..? (will accept other answers)
The space for collective action around shared interests, purposes and values, generally distinct from government and commercial for-profit actors.
What is Civil Society?
Knowing the health care system and creating networks with health care providers is an example of...
What are Modes of Advocating for Ourselves?
Political project that extends nation’s sovereignty over territory beyond its borders by the establishment of either settler colonies or administrative dependencies in which Indigenous populations are directly rules, displaced and murdered.
An example of neoliberalism/neoliberal polices regulating medical care.
The social actions taken by the person as a result of illness or disease.
What is Sickness?
Protection through inclusion, empowerment, agency, and support are ways of ____ according to Salim Nabi
What are ways to tackle Inequality and Marginalization?