1. Health Care System: The system a society uses to maintain the physical and mental health of its constituents.
1.1. Social Determinants of Health: The factors that affect an individual's health.e.g housing, class, race, education
1.1.1. Access to Health Care: a major source that contributes to health inequity
1.2. Health Inequity: The difference of health outcomes between genders and races.
2. Eurocentric Ideals : The practice of using the values and epistemology of colonizers who are of European descent.
3. Feminist Theory
3.1. Antiracist Feminism: challenges mainstream feminist belief that all women have the same experiences and that women of color have unique experiences that indirectly affects everybody.
3.2. Post-colonialist Feminist Theory: Focuses on the differences of oppression that women across cultures experience. Uses history to explain these differences.
3.2.1. Post colonial theories: An analytical framework that explains current trends of societal inequities through a socio-historical lens.
4. Race: socially constructed groups based on perceived external , physical differences. For example: Black, white, asian, e.t.c
4.1. Racism: Discrimination of one racialized group by another.
4.1.1. Institutionalized Racism: The policies and laws instated that perpetuate differences in experiences through discrimination between racialized groups
4.1.1.1. An example of this being the 1857 Civilization of Indian Tribes Act, a policy where First Nations people had to relinquish their lands and culture because they were deemed as uncivilized by the European colonizers.
4.1.2. Cultural Racism: Placing the values of one culture above another
4.1.2.1. An example of this would be the rejection of rap and other black originating art forms by white, middle class americans in the 1990's and 2000's
4.1.3. Epistemic Racism: Valuing the ways of knowing of one culture above another.