Medical Industrial Complex: Reproducing health inequities

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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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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

Shifting the framework for understanding

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

treatments and cures for diseases.

The U.S. government is in collusion with the

pharmaceutical industry to perpetuate health

inequities on the basis of sexist, classist and

racist ideologies

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