Health Disparity In Cameroon

Introduction
Health disparity is something that can easily be witnessed among all society around that globe. Understand what factors cause these disparities can act as a giant step toward containing them. When societies or nations work to identify and address the factors that result to health disparities among racial, ethnic, geographic, socioeconomic, and other groups, this eventually helps in bridging the barrier to health equality (CDC, 2013).
As we best understand, peripheral nations are the most vulnerable as health is concerned. Being someone from one of the poorest nations in Sub Sahara Africa (Cameroon), there are several factors that can be witnessed which contribute to the disparities in health among ethnic, socioeconomic, and gender

Most of these groups are vulnerable to diseases because of lack of portable drinking water and health care facilities. Because power is concentrated in the hands of few individuals, they turn to care more of their groups than looking into problems that the nation is facing as a whole.
Disparity in the quality of health care is a common phenomenon in Cameroon. Being sick and poor in this country is a sure case that no medical staff will care about you. If very fortunate very little attention will be given to you and simple medication can be prescript without proper examination. This altitude has caused millions of lives.
According to Perry (2010), stigmatization is largely in group health ethics, thereby preventing those with diseases to seek treatment or cure. It is really unfortunate that practitioners are behind such ridiculous act because these are people who suppose to protect patients. In my country, the most stigmatized disease is HIV/AID. In fact, thousands have perished because they could not face the public as HIV/AID carriers. This stigma eventually barred them from seeking treatment, as a result, their lives has to

Reason being because HIV/AID is considered purely sexuality transmitted disease. Therefore carriers of this disease are considered unfaithful to their partners with the disease resulting as punishment. On the other hand, people see malaria as a natural disease that can affect anyone.
Theoretically, the functionalist perspective on health outlined it that health is crucial to the stability of the society (Little, 2014). With this understanding of theirs, they point it out that sickness is therefore a sanctioned form of deviance. According to this theory, sick individuals are unable to play their roles and those taking care of them surely abandoned certain activities at the time. This exemption from normal roles is temporal as their functions become normal immediately the situation is contained.
Critical sociology on it part sees health issues as a result of capitalism. It argued that capitalism and the pursuit of profit result to commodification of health. With commodification of health, corporations provide insurance companies, pharmaceutical companies and capital providers took it as an advantage to disproportionate influence on how health care system should be run and function. This has caused vulnerability among different classes and the situation is nowhere near to