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Medical Industria l Complex: Reproduci ng health inequitie s Christina Tsao

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Medical Industrial Complex: Reproducing health inequities . Christina Tsao. What accounts for the disproportionate rate of poor health in historically disadvantaged communities? . Social inequality is making us sick. - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

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Page 1: Medical Industrial Complex: Reproducing health inequities

Medical Industrial Complex: Reproducing health inequities Christina Tsao

Page 2: Medical Industrial Complex: Reproducing health inequities

What accounts for the disproportionate rate

of poor health in historically

disadvantaged communities?

Social inequality is making us sick

Page 3: Medical Industrial Complex: Reproducing health inequities

Shifting the framework for understanding

health to focus on the cause of illness, rather than the

treatments and cures for diseases.

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The U.S. government is in collusion with the

pharmaceutical industry to perpetuate health

inequities on the basis of sexist, classist and

racist ideologies