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Week 8 Readings - Coggle Diagram
Week 8 Readings
Can't Buy Me Whiteness
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Common conception that average/median levels of SES have better health outcomes compared to people with lower levels
Issue: Research is based on whites, especially white men. The relationship varies for other demographic groups
Problem: By only researching whites, the relationship study has been impeded for SES and health for other demographic groups
Missed opportunities: Material resources, psychosocial and physical health costs, alternative sociocultural orientations
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Race & Blackness
Main Idea: Effective communication is integral to patient-provider relationships and black individuals are faced with communication challenges during health care seeking encounters
Why complications arise: Discrimination, mistrust, health literacy differences, impacts of culture, and language barriers
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Inequities driven by multilevel factors including structural, systems and provider factors
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Methodology: This study analyzes African Immigrants and African Americans and highlights that previously, this distinction has been a large gap in research
Overall takeaway: A lack of communication, research, and analysis of specific marginal demographic groups leads to inadequate data and assumptions causing multilevel health disparities in the United States.