These social structures lead to poor health outcomes.  An example of this is living in a neighborhood without access to fresh foods; it operates at a neighborhood level rather than an individual one, and it is linked to health outcomes because of the resulting poor diets.

Societal-level social structures and poor health outcomes

These can be things like laws; institutional policies and practices; national, regional, state, and local economic and political infrastructures; neighborhood and workplace conditions; and community-level cultural ideologies.

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Discriminatory institutions, norms, and structures within society such as racism or sexism.  These lead to poor health outcomes.

Systems of oppression

Taylor, C. J. (2019).  Health consequences of laws and public policies that target, or protect, marginalized populations. Sociology Compass, 14, 1-13.


Health consequences of laws and public policies that target, or protect, marginalized populations

Societal-level social structures

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