Health Inequalities

Chahal and other researchers says that the Black minorities are the most talked about and most researched minorities within health. They are also known for being the most problematic minorities with negative health care services. Which is true in the cases of Mental Health. Black and African Caribbean people are mostly affected with Mental Health, this can be shown in Figure 5.3 in Barry and Yuill’s Understanding of Health. The kind of Mental Health that they mostly face are schizophrenia. Black minorities are mostly affected by schizophrenia for the reason that they accommodate in rural areas that are quite deprived places, where there is lots of pollution. For the reason that of their living conditions are quite bad it makes their illness
These differences have a huge impact, because they result in people who are worse [sic] off experiencing poorer health and shorter lives. Some differences, such as ethnicity, may be fixed. Others are caused by social or geographical factors (also known as 'health inequities') and can be avoided or mitigated” (National Institute for Health and care Excellence: NICE: 2012)
Nowadays, medicine practices are well subsidizing by our local and international governments in reaching out the medical needs of our fellowmen especially the indigent individuals and for those people who live in remote areas. In Health care sector, there were a lot of health care programs allocated to reinforced health care inequalities among minority ethnicities such as the National Health Service, Community Care and many aspects of The Public Health too. Overall people think that Britain has the best health care due to the National Health Service while other countries such as US and Europe still have to pay. “Industrialized countries have achieved universal or near universal health care coverage, generally funded through mandatory taxation or social insurance.” (Mossialos and LeGrand:
This was a promise that they had to make when working in this profession. This stated that the task of doctors and nurses are to help patients no matter what the situation is. “I will use treatments for the benefit of the ill in accordance with my ability and my judgement, but from what is to their harm and injustice I will keep them.” (Skool, D: 2008) Until this day Doctors and Nurses who want to be in the profession, have to take the Hippocratic Oath before they take the job. Although the Oath has been modernized it still states that Doctors and nurses first priority is the patients. Students who want to be in the profession will still have to take it and learn about it too. Furthermore, in the Oath it states that doctors and nurses have to treat everyone, regardless of race, ethnicities, criminals, innocent victims and drug dependents “I will remember that I remain a member of society, with special obligations to all my fellow human beings, those sound of mind and body as well as the infirm” (Tyson, P: