Based on your readings what factors contribute to health disparities related to race/ethnicity AND socioeconomic status?
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1.
Based on your readings what factors
contribute to health disparities related to race/ethnicity AND socioeconomic
status? Are they the same for both? If so, explain how and if not, explain why
not.
2.
Using the critical life models discussed in
class and the readings, compare and contrast the critical period model and the
accumulation of risk models. In your opinion, which model provides the most
likely reason (in the case of the typical American) for the obesity epidemic in
the U.S. and why?
3.
This
chart from the CDC shows the racial/ethnic health disparity of the COVID-19
pandemic in the United States. Apply at least one theory or model of health
disparity to explain possible reasons for these disparities. Feel free to provide examples that support
your assertion
4.
Using
the Camara Jones’ Levels of Racism as a framework. Choose another “ism” (sexism, classism,
ableism, etc.) and apply each level to that ism by providing examples. Account
for all three levels. How do the levels of this “ism” apply to health disparities?
5.
Michelle
Alexander’s The New Jim Crow: Mass
Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness details the various components
that have led to the United States having the largest number of incarcerated
persons in the world. How do you think this book relates to or informs health
disparities? Provide examples. (You do not have to discuss racial health
disparities, or prison health disparities.)
