Health Inequalities Task 2 Sociological Analysis

Health inequalities, task 2:

In this essay I will provide sociological analysis of the underlying reasons for the differences in health and provide explanations and reasons of health inequalities.

According to the map/graph (I provided), there are variations in health status according to social class, gender and geographical region in the UK. For example, the number of premature death are much higher in Scotland then elsewhere, for both men and women.

By social class men aged 25-64 from routine or manual backgrounds are twice as likely to die as those from managerial or professional backgrounds. For all major causes, death rates for men aged 25 to 64 are much higher among those from manual backgrounds than those from non-manual backgrounds (managerial and professional background) and by social class men aged 25-64 from routine or manual backgrounds are twice as likely to die as those from managerial or professional backgrounds.This shows that health inequalities in social class does exists, and that people in the

Neurotic disorders are reported for by an entire one-fifth of those on the unskilled manual class, contrasted with only 9 for cent in the professional group. This means that those in the lowest social class are over twice as liable to suffer from a neurotic disorder as those in highest social class (Coulthard et al. 2004).()

In the previous four decades, a reports has shown the connection among social class and health. The Black Report 1980 and The Marmot Review 2010 will give sociological clarifications to these health inequalities (Scambler, G. 2013). Although the National Health Service (NHS) was establishment in the 1948, and UK has been improved both economically and socially over the past many years however inequalities in health still is a problem and the gap continue to wider