From a socioeconomic perspective, lower respiratory infections seem to affect a majority of people that live in poorer conditions. Despite infants, families that occupy low socioeconomic status are said to undergo high rates of lower respiratory illnesses. The amount of money that a family has, the ability of a person or a family to get access to some of the best healthcare facilities will, in the end, determine their health. Poverty, for instance, is widespread across South Sudan. The levels of poverty in the country mean that majority of citizens in the country cannot be in a position to get access to better healthcare facilities. Their socioeconomic situation cannot allow them to get treated for a number of preventable diseases, lower respiratory illnesses being one of them (Oluoch, …show more content…
Years of political instability and cases of civil conflict in South Sudan that has lasted for decades have made it very difficult for people to get access to health. South Sudan has always experienced internal warfare between different ethnic communities, an aspect that has made it tasking for individuals suffering from internal respiratory infections to get treated (Perry, 2014). Of importance to note is that individuals living in urban centers are more likely to get access to healthcare facilities as opposed to those living in the country's remote locations where insecurity and poor infrastructure is the order of the