Race, gender, class, and sexual orientation: intersecting axes of inequality and self-rated health in Canada
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Race, gender, class, and sexual orientation: intersecting axes of inequality and self-rated health in Canada
BACKGROUND Intersectionality theory, a way of understanding social inequalities by race, gender, class, and sexuality that emphasizes their mutually constitutive natures, possesses potential to uncover and explicate previously unknown health inequalities. In this paper, the intersectionality principles of "directionality," "simultaneity," "multiplicativity," and "multiple jeopardy" are applied ...
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عنوان ژورنال: International Journal for Equity in Health
سال: 2011
ISSN: 1475-9276
DOI: 10.1186/1475-9276-10-3