Stan, Clarence, Barry, and the Health Chatter team discuss the impacts labels, stereotypes, and identities can have on health.Join the conversation at healthchatterpodcast.comBrought to you in support of Hue-MAN, who is Creating Healthy Communities through Innovative Partnerships.More about their work can be found at http://huemanpartnership.org/
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Hello, everybody. Welcome to Health Chatter. Today's show is on stereotypes and labeling and how health is affected by it. Should be an interesting show. It's with our gang, the Health Chatter gang. Everybody's going to chime in as best they can with some stories or ideas about this subject. It certainly is an interesting one.
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It's an interesting perspective that they take addressing health from a community perspective. You can check them out at humanpartnership.org and check us out at healthchatterpodcast.com. You can see all our research. You can provide a review, insights, questions, et cetera, on our website. So feel free to visit it. So today, Show on stereotypes and labeling. This is interesting.
I volunteer at a local hospital in the Twin Cities here. And from time to time, I'll see patients that frankly describe themselves particular ways. And it dawned on me, does that affect how health is delivered? And frankly, the question kind of bothered me. And then it came, I called it labeling at that point.
And then when we were discussing the whole concept, I think it was Barry, I think you brought up the idea of maybe it's how we create stereotypes. And so I think we kind of put these both together. Aaron did our background, research on this. And so thank you, Erin. And she provided an interesting little story. And she recommended that I read it. And I did read it.
And I want to share it with you, the listening audience. And it was from a LinkedIn. And this person said, I attended a wedding a while back of a beautiful young couple. It would have and could have been a beautiful wedding, but I'm afraid the pastor conducting the wedding ceremony spoiled it for me and for several guests.
You see, he carried on and on about wearing makeup, having a drink, or having tattoos are all sins. I wear makeup, I have tattoos, and naturally being At a wedding, we toasted the bride and groom with champagne. The hell we go. This got me thinking about stereotypes and labels we give people. How our prejudices can prevent us from getting to know and understand another person.
How we allow society to dictate what is right, good, and normal. Interesting perspective on that. Matthew, I know you have a story that you said you'd be willing to share with our listening audience and our podcast today too.
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