Socioeconomic status shows a main role in health. However, it doesn’t just affect the health care; it affects diet, housing conditions, and environmental conditions. The sophisticated and developed your socioeconomic status is, the superior and improved health care treatment you have. This tolerates you to get repetitive check-ups, also have surgeries without distressing about the fact that you simply cannot afford it, etc. It as well gives you the chance to find a doctor outside of your insurance network; but individuals of advanced socioeconomic status can afford to pay for the Dr that simply isn’t covered by insurance. However higher socioeconomic lets you live in an environment with heat, conditioning etc.…
This documentary displays epidemiology in action to reveal the correlation between social status and overall health. It focuses on two categories of social status that influence overall health, economic status and race. These two categories are examples of health disparities. According to Paula Braveman a health disparity is, “a difference in which disadvantaged social groups who have persistently experienced social disadvantage or discrimination- systematically experience worse health or greater health risks than more advantaged social groups” (Braveman, 2006, p.167). The documentary explains that economic status and race impact the idea of control and security.…
Inequalities in the human condition, specifically health, is something that has always plagued our society. The World Health Organization (WHO) defines the conditions that a person is born into, grows, lives, work and ages as the social determinants of health. These conditions have a significant impact on the trajectory of ones quality of life; both from a physical and emotional aspect. The five focus areas under the social determinants of health include economic stability, education, social and community context, health and health care, and lastly neighborhood and built environment. These inter-connected conditions can have dire consequences on large populations of people.…
The determinants of health involve, the social and economic environment, the physical environment, and people’s individual characteristics and behaviors also from my understanding there are many combination of factors that affect people and communities and not be capable of directly controlling much of the determinants of health. There are specific determinants that make people healthy or not and are determined by their circumstances and environment, for instance, Income and social status, the more money a person makes is the better their health status. Social determinants of health are financial and social environments that impact the health of individuals and societies. Some of the factors associated with health consequences contain: • The…
There is substantial evidence that the standards of health and the life expectancy of individuals varies according to social class. Individuals within a higher social class live longer and are healthier due to the fact that they can afford private healthcare. They also don’t have to worry about a loss of pay if they were to take time out to attend a doctor’s appointment or sick leave. Higher social class members are able to afford to live a healthier lifestyle. With a healthy lifestyle comes more expenses than that of an unhealthy lifestyle. Individuals in higher classes can afford healthier food choices, they can cook meals from scratch using fresh fruit and vegetables and organic produce. They may also have money to regularly attend the gym or even buy exercise machines for their home. They also have enough financial stability to afford a safe comfortable home with heating and running water whereas lower class individuals may be suffering from damp or an inability to afford heating and electricity. Also, due…
These are a few potential links between social inequalities and the health of the population: income and wealth distribution, unemployment, the ageing society, gender and health, mental illness and suicide and disability and dysfunction. I am going to discuss each of these and see the health impact on people in each group.…
Socioeconomic status consists of numerous elements in association with health disparities, such as education, employment status, income, housing, and neighborhood. Socioeconomic status is similar to the “Domino Effect” where one element affects other elements in a…
Burstin, H. (2002). Socioeconomic status and risk for substandard medical care [Entire issue]. JAMA: the journal of the American Medical Association, 268(17). doi: 10.1001/jama.1992.03490170055025…
Healthy People 2010 was sent off in January 2000 by the Department of Health and Human Services. This program intended to tackle nationwide promotions and disease preventions in the communities in which they sever form social disparities in health. Social disparities generally specify as the difference in health status that are consistently correlated with various levels of latent social advantages and position in the social ladder (Braveman & Gruskin, 2003.) these social disparities in health are mirrored by ethnicity, sexual orientation, education and occupation. Moreover, there are other distinctive reasons linked with preeminent resources, prestige, influence and social incorporation (Braveman & Gruskin, 2003.)…
Throughout the course of their life, individuals will experience varying degrees of health and well being. An individual’s health is measured based on the different types of conditions and resources that they are exposed to. These conditions and resources can be identified through what is called The Social Determinants of Health (SDOH). SDOH are used to identify the health status of an individual, community and population.…
“Health is a universal human aspiration and a basic human need. The development of society, rich or poor, can be judged by the quality of its population’s health. How fairly health is distributed across the social spectrum, and the degree of protection provided from disadvantage due to ill-health. Health equity is central to this premise. Strengthening health equity - globally and within countries - means going beyond contemporary concentration on the immediate causes of disease to the ‘cause of the causes’- the fundamental structures of social hierarchy and the socially determined conditions these create in which people grow, live, work, and age (Professor Sir Michael Marmot, 2010).…
Contrary to what many people believe, America’s health status is not quite “up-to-par,” to say the least. Over forty-seven million people in the United States lack health insurance; that is more than 15% of our nation’s population! At first this disturbing truth seems impossible to believe, being as America is one of the most technologically advanced and economically developed countries in the world. “We spend trillions of dollars per year on medical care. That’s nearly half of all the health dollars spent in the world. But we’ve seen our statistics. We live shorter, often sicker lives than almost every other industrialized nation. “We rank 30th in [global] life expectancy” (Adelman 2008). Knowing this brings rise to the question: why are Americans so sick? One can conclude that this must simply be related to individual health behaviors and choices. But is that really it? Do we just choose not to be healthy? Upon further investigation it is determined that this is far from true. Although it may be true for some, one cannot deem an entire countries health status as unsatisfactory by just the few. “Unnatural Causes: Is Inequality Making us Sick (Episode 1: In Sickness and In Wealth),” a reputable PBS documentary, brings new light to the cause of America’s current health status. Through statistical and case-study related research it is determined that health status and social status show a direct correlation. Social status is comprised of economic and social factors that impact individual and communal health. These factors are referred to as the “social determinants of health” (Adelman 2008). The social determinants of health include: education, employment, income and race.…
Socioeconomic status, race/ethnicity and gender play a huge influence on health status as it subconsciously influences the way physicians interacts with patients, the sort of treatment patients receive at hospitals, and how their health is overall based on how society influences them. The main trends noticed throughout time is that the lower your socioeconomic status is, the poorer your health status is; if you are African-American, Hispanics, etc… receive poorer treatments because of the stereotypes toward their ethnicity in society and because these races tend to have lower SES than other races; for gender, men tend to take on riskier careers in comparison to women so they tend to die earlier and visit the hospital more often while women tend to take better care of themselves and seek medical treatment more often than…
Studies show that there are social determinants that the poor have to deal with have a cascade effect on a person’s life which will affect the overall health of the individual. In the article titled Social Status Has a…
This essay will discuss ways in which a person’s socioeconomic class and his/her social situation can have an impact on his/her health, using examples. Health is influenced by factors like Family traits, behaviours, access to quality healthcare and environment (quality of air, water and house conditions). These factors can be perceived both positively and negatively (Tones and Greens, 2004). Starting the foundation of the essay, I will be defining the key terms: Socioeconomic status and Health then proceed to talk about how poverty, income, housing, employability and social environment impacts on a…