How Does Alf's Social Inequalities Affect His Health

when caring for Alf by defining his health as the absence of disease, so health professionals may intervene just when necessary. A professional such a pulmonologist may cure his disease if possible or at least monitors that he is doing fine by making sure his bronchitis is healthy and working properly, using scientifically tested methods which should diagnosed his illness. The pulmonologist according to the biomedical model wouldn’t be bother about the social factors which had impact on his health, about the fact his depression and the way he smokes heavily; the doctor may just be concern about getting him well soon as possible. Alf because of his illness now he cannot make his normal contribution to the society, so this means he is going to occupy the sick role by being cared from the government through benefits.
Contrary a practitioner who may use the socio-medical approach may focus on Alf’s social factors affecting his health and not just at his bronchitis or the fact that he has been diagnosed as having lung cancer. A counselor or psychologist may be questioning
A social inequality is a lack of social equality, where individuals among the society do not privilege of equal social status. Social inequality has several important dimensions. Income is the earnings from work or investments, while wealth is the total value of money and other assets minus debts. Other important dimensions include power, occupational prestige, schooling, ancestry, and race and ethnicity. One approach to explain poverty is to blame the poor - that the poor are responsible for their own poverty. There is some evidence to support this theory, because the main reason people are poor is the lack of employment. According to this view, society has plenty of opportunities for people to realize the American dream, and people are poor because they lack the motivation, skills, or schooling to find