Health disparities is not only a Clayton County issue but a national issue as well. Consequently, Healthy People 2020 initiated a decisive goal to reduce health disparities among all Americans by the year 2020. One of this goals of Healthy People 2020 is the reduction of infant mortality rate among Americans to a target goal of 6.0 deaths per 1,000 live births.1 In 2015, infant mortality rates for black non-Hispanics were 2.2 times that of white non-Hispanics. As it relates to sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS) black non-Hispanics mothers were 2 times greater than that of white non-Hispanics mothers.
According to the article “Health Disparity and Structural Violence: How Fear Undermines Health among Immigrants at Risk for Diabetes was informative with pointing out the fear and health. The framework of structural violence frame transcends traditional unidimensional analysis. The structural violence method is "capable of revealing the dynamics of social practices that operate across multiple dimensions of people’s lives in ways that may not immediately appear related to health" (Page-Reeves, et al., 2013, p. 30). The relationship between fear and health is very much interrelated. The article discusses three aspects of fears Cost, Language Barriers and Immigration Status, and Cultural Disconnect (Page-Reeves, et al., 2013, p. 36).
Social Determinants of Health Shelly Clavis Rutgers University School of Nursing Social Determinants of Health Defined Health concerns is an issue that most organizations have formed a pact to safely deal with the challenge. The main agenda focuses on the eradication of health inequalities that may exist in most countries. It is best suited that social determinants are accorded the much-needed attention since they affect a number of people. In assessing the factors that affect one’s health, genetic disposition, personal behaviors, ability to obtain healthcare and the overall environment in which an individual resides are to be considered. Social determinants of Health are issues that deals with the conditions that people have found constructed in a society and acts as a parcel in their lives, such as; growth, age and some of the more complex systems that construct a society which include economic policies and their systems that include social norms, development goals and the basic political system that they are indulged under (World Health Organization, 2008).
Health disparity are avertible health status of distinctive group of people like races, skin color, language, socioeconomic resources, gender and age (Edelman, Kudzma, & Mandle, 2014). Health disparities are arbitrary and explicit to historical and present uneven distribution of political, economic, social, and environmental resources. A disparity can also be related to education, where dropping out of school occurs associated with various social and health problems (CDC,2017). Comprehensively, person with inadequate education are more likely to struggle number of health risks such as substance abuse, obesity, and traumatic injuries, compared to individual who receive more education. One of the main findings within health disparities in history
University of the people Discussion Forum unit 7 SOC 1502 - AY2018-T1 What factors do you think contribute to the disparities in health among ethnic, socioeconomic, and gender groups in your country? What diseases are the most stigmatized? Which are the least? Is this different in different cultures or social classes?
A few things the article focused on were the definition of health disparities, the social disadvantages, and the political side. According to Healthy people2010, health disparities are “differences that occur by gender, race or ethnicity, education or income, disability, living in rural localities or sexual orientation”. Yes, I agree with that statement, but I think that race or ethnicity is the main one, that has lead to housing, education, and income inequalities. Blacks and Latinos have always been seen as inferior because racial discrimination, just like the article says, is rooted in our history.
The next natural step after determining the socioeconomic inequalities in a health variable is to disentangle the sources of the socioeconomic inequalities. The method for decomposing the inequalities into their contributing factors proposed by Wagstaff et al (2003) has become a staple in empirical research on socioeconomic inequalities in health. Wagstaff et al (2003) have demonstrated that if the relevant health outcome, h, can be expressed as a linear function of a set of k covariates, as follows: h =α+∑_k▒〖β_k x_k+ε〗 Then substituting the linear regression of the health outcome in the formula for concentration index and performing some algebraic manipulation yields the following formula for the decomposition (which, following Heckley et
In addition, a large body of research suggests that health may also be affected by the distribution of economic resources within a society (e.g., Kawachi & Kennedy, 1999; Wilkinson, 2006; Wilkinson & Pickett, 2008). The average health of a population is likely to decline with higher inequality levels. In other words, health tends to be better in more egalitarian societies. There are a variety of mechanisms through which income inequality may affect health. In their comprehensive review of the studies on the link between income inequality and health, Kawachi & Kennedy (1999) outline three main pathways.
As a medical profession, one must examine his or her practice and make sure it aligns with actions that are conducive to creating a more equal healthcare environment. This begins with facilitating greater access to primary care and actively providing services in underserved areas. The greatest way that primary care impacts underserved populations is through preventing disease and promoting healthy lifestyles. When a medical provider can see a patient while his or her condition is still at an early stage, the disease is prevented from progressing to a stage that is more difficult and costly to treatment. In addition to increased primary care access, it is also important for medical providers to educate the public about health disparities.
These differences have a huge impact, because they result in people who are worst 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. Local authorities are uniquely placed to tackle health inequalities, as many of the social and economic determinants of health, and the services or activities which can make a difference, fall within their remit. The challenge is to reduce the difference in mortality and morbidity rates between rich and poor and to increase the quality of life and sense of wellbeing of the whole local community.
What social structural factors contribute to health disparities for persons of minority group status? In the U.S., social structural factors have produced health disparities across people. These disparities are sometimes related to America history. Race/ethnicity and Poverty
Racial and ethnic disparity in teen pregnancy rates abound. The National Campaign (2014), observed that African American female teens are twice in danger of getting pregnant than white teenagers; about four out of every ten of them would have gotten pregnant by their 20th birthday, and that as at 2010, the pregnancy rate for this racial group already stood at 99.5 out of every 1000 for female teens aged 15 to 19. Further studies suggest that the Hispanic/Latino minority group is not far behind, with rates greater than the national average (Shoff & Yang, 2012). The economic costs are enormous and multifaceted; educational, health, occupational, economic, and so on.
'Discuss and explain what social inequalities in health care are and include how they come about and manifest in health care.' Introduction: Social inequalities in health can be defined as the extent to which there are differences, in the standard of wellbeing, amongst a group or population. These differences can be related to people’s lifestyles and working environments. They are deemed ‘inequalities’ because they are classed as being avoidable or unnecessary (WHO 2016).
Health inequalities are preventable and unjust differences in health status experienced by certain population groups. People in lower socio-economic groups are more likely to experience chronic ill-health and die earlier than those who are more advantaged. Health inequalities are not only apparent between people of different socio-economic groups – they exist between different genders and different ethnic groups (“Health inequalities,” n.d.). The situation in which people are born, grow, develop, work and age are affected by social, economic, environmental and most importantly political factors.
insights into various phenomenon related that are related to health, inequality in health, medical care, relationship between health and socioeconomic status, occupational choice (Cropper, 1977; Muurinen and Le Grand 1985; Case and Deaton, 2005) and has become the standard framework for the economics of the derived demand for medical care .A standard framework for health investment like medical care, demand for health and has to meet the significant challenge of providing insight into a variety of complex phenomena. Ideally it would explain the significant differences observed in the Farmers health and socioeconomic status (SES) often called the “SES-health gradient” (Galama, 2011). 2.5.1 The Demand for Health and Health Investment Demand
