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.…
Each family has a socioeconomic status that is based on family income, parental education level, occupation and social status in the community. Families with low socioeconomic status often lack in their financial, education and social supports that families with high socioeconomic status don’t lack. Usually poor families have inadequate or limited access to community resources…
Social stratification is a system in which society ranks categories of people in hierarchy. In the United States we group people together by status of wealth. Differences in wealth is what led to social stratification. Social Stratifications exists due to three major functions. First being Structural functionalism, next is social conflict, and lastly there is symbolic interaction. (Plummer)…
For a rich male it probable to lose a lot of ethical behavior. A rich male may believe he is superior to the rest because of his education. Some rich males may have been born rich and have gained no morals because of their lifestyle. Many rich males may easily become addicts because of their free time. The rich male may believe he makes the rules because of the way they were raised. Without a doubt males economic standpoint definitely plays a big role in their attitudes and beliefs. I encourage everyone to try to break these barriers that society has thrown on us and make a difference on this earth after all rich or not we all continue to be human…
Braveman, P. (2012). Health inequalities by class and race in the US: What can we learn from the patterns?. Social Science & Medicine, 74(5), 665-667. doi:10.1016/j.socscimed.2011.12.009…
Compared to other countries, the U.S. may resemble a utopia. Although the United States may appear to be magnificent, the country possesses flaws of its own. The U.S. broadcasts the successes of its society, rather than exuding the real problems within America. Several citizens fail to realize that poverty truly does exists in the United States.…
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…
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Health disparities are preventable differences in the burden of disease, injury, violence, or opportunities to achieve optimal health that are experienced by socially disadvantaged populations. Health disparities are inequitable and are directly related to the historical and current unequal distribution of social, political, economic, and environmental resources (Health Disparities, 2015). There are multiple factors that contribute to health disparities such as, poverty, inadequate access to health care, inadequate education, environmental factors, and individual behaviors. An example of a health disparity is dropping out of school. Dropping out of school has a direct relation with…
For example, the study by Davis, Gebreab, Quarells, & Gibbons (2014) identified socioeconomic status (SES), general daily stress, racial discrimination, and stress due to exposure to racial discrimination, as some social determinants responsible for cardiovascular diseases in African-Americans. These social determinants act as underlying factors to the risk factors identified in cardiovascular disease - hypertension, diabetes, and obesity (Davis, Gebreab, Quarells, & Gibbons (2014). In addition to these ones, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (2014) included poverty, unemployment, high school education, and health insurance as social determinants. These factors collectively contribute to the increased prevalence of cardiovascular disease in…
Asthma is a lingering lung disease that causes recurring periods of wheezing, chest tightness, shortness of breath, and coughing. It is a global health problem that affects millions of people within the United States and worldwide. However, certain population groups are more susceptible to obtaining asthma than others. Socioeconomic status (SES) is a rough marker of a variety environmental/behavioral exposures and a very important determinant of differences in asthma prevalence and severity among ethnic minorities in the U.S.1 Ethnic minorities have a higher risk for obtaining asthma in the United States due to low socioeconomic status. The mechanisms by which SES influences the prevalence and severity of asthma in ethnic…
As is the case with most public health dilemmas, there is no black and white solution to the issue of health inequalities. Health inequalities do persist in part because of economic disparities, but the issue cannot justly be reduced to an ideological debate. The examination of the social determinants of health paints a compelling picture to the contrary. The boundaries between the effects of race, gender and class are blurry at best. Such factors as education, social context, economic status, and access to services are deeply intertwined – further muddying the waters. Yet, we are compelled to study address determinants and factors because they seem to bear heavily on the quality of societal health. Race, class – both social and economic – and gender each play significant roles in…
According to the article “Social status has a measurable effect on health” studies show what are the main causes of health disparities, mostly in the united states, even though health care has improved a lot and it is better than years before, not everybody can get it, and that is because some people have a lower income rate and cannot afford it as easy as someone with a higher rate, and that also influences a person’s location in the community which may lead to unhealthy environments such as toxic substances, violent household, dangerous working place and stress, so…
As an existing social condition, low socioeconomic status is associated with unhealthy behaviors or lifestyles among Hispanics.…
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Socioeconomic status is a term used to weigh up an individual/family member social and economic standing. This is determined by factors like income, educational achievement, social environment and occupational status (Zina O Leary, 2007). A person’s socioeconomic status can fluctuate over time depending on the person improving their life…