health inequality

Examples of health inequality in the following topics:

• Social Class and Health

  • While gender and race play significant factors in explaining healthcare inequality in the United States, socioeconomic status is the greatest determining factor in an individual's level of access to healthcare.
  • They are unable to use health care as often, and when they do it is of lower quality, even though they generally tend to experience a much higher rate of health issues.
  • Social determinants of health are the economic and social conditions, and their distribution among the population, that influence individual and group differences in health status.
  • Health inequality is the term used in a number of countries to refer to those instances whereby the health of two demographic groups (not necessarily ethnic or racial groups) differs despite comparative access to health care services.
  • Discuss the role social class plays in access to adequate health care and health inequality

• Gender Inequality in Health Care

  • Studies that address percentages of each gender covered by insurance only speak to one measure of inequality in health care.
  • The premise of the contraceptive mandate demonstrates present inequities in the American health care industry for male and female patients.
  • Instead, insurance coverage of contraception was framed as a government subsidy for sexual activity.This framing revealed inherent social inequalities for women in the domain of sexual health.
  • This bill is seen as a vital step in combating gender inequalities in the health care system.
  • Identify three ways in which gender inequality in health care manifests itself in the United States

• Introducing Health Psychology

  • Health psychology is the application of psychological theory and research to health, illness, and healthcare.
  • Public health psychologists present research results on epidemiological findings related to health behaviors to educators, policy makers, and health care providers in order to promote public health initiatives for at-risk groups.
  • Community health psychology investigates community factors that contribute to the health and well-being.
  • Critical health psychology is concerned with the distribution of power and the impact of power differentials on health behaviors, healthcare systems, and health policy.
  • A major concern is health inequality, and the critical health psychologist acts as an agent of change working to create equal access to healthcare.

• Social Class

  • Social class position, thus, affects one's access to good public health and better living environments.
  • While gender and race play significant factors in explaining healthcare inequality in the United States, socioeconomic status is the greatest determining factor in an individual's level of access to healthcare.
  • Social determinants of health are the economic and social conditions, and their distribution among the population, that influence individual and group differences in health status.
  • Health inequality is the term used in a number of countries to refer to those instances whereby the health of two demographic groups (not necessarily ethnic or racial groups) differs despite comparative access to healthcare services.
  • Identify the various ways social class plays a role in access to and quality of health care

• Global Health

  • Global health is the health of populations in a global context and transcends the perspectives and concerns of individual nations.
  • The application of these principles to the domain of mental health is called global mental health.
  • The major international agency for health is the World Health Organization (WHO) .
  • Bioethics research also examines international obligations of justice, in three broadly clustered areas: When are international inequalities in health unjust?
  • Where do international health inequalities come from?

• Public Health

  • In the United States, the front line of public health initiatives is state and local health departments.
  • Since the 1980s, the growing field of population health has broadened the focus of public health from individual behaviors and risk factors to population-level issues such as inequality, poverty, and education.
  • Newer public health policies seeks to address these health inequalities by advocating for population-based policies that improve health in an equitable manner.
  • Most countries have their own government public health agencies , sometimes known as ministries of health, to respond to domestic health issues.
  • The public health system in India is managed by the Ministry of Health & Family Welfare of the government of India with state owned health care facilities.

• Physical Health

  • While gender and race play significant roles in explaining healthcare inequality in the United States, socioeconomic status (SES) is the greatest social determinant of an individual's health outcome.
  • Social determinants of health are the economic and social conditions that influence individual and group differences in health status.
  • Health inequality refers to the unequal distribution of environmental health hazards and access to health services between demographic groups, including social classes.
  • The role of socioeconomic status in determining access to healthcare results in heath inequality between the upper, middle, and lower or working classes, with the higher classes having more positive health outcomes.
  • Describe how a low socioeconomic status (SES) can impact the health status of individuals

• The Significance of Social Inequality

  • Sociologists study many types of inequality, including economic inequality, racial/ethnic inequality, and gender inequality.
  • Sociology has a long history of studying stratification and teaching about various kinds of inequality, including economic inequality, racial/ethnic inequality, gender inequality, and other types of inequality.
  • These resources might be economic or political, such as health care, education, jobs, property and land ownership, housing, and ability to influence government policy.
  • Do we justify inequality?
  • Can we eliminate inequality?

• Introduction

  • The WHO definition also overlooks the fact that several factors influence both the definition of health and standards of health.
  • Immunizations from various diseases have improved health worldwide.What it means to be healthy can vary from culture to culture and is often connected with advances in technology and cultural patterns of race, class, gender, and sexual inequalities.
  • What are understood today to be healthy practices were not emphasized prior to clear understandings of disease and the contributions of lifestyles to health, and some practices advanced as "healthy" today are the result of cultural beliefs that benefit some at the expense of others (e.g., inequalities).
  • Importantly, this may be due to the United States' interesting position as - since The Health Maintenance Organization Act of 1973 - a private, for profit system of managed care rather than a public good non-profit system of health promotion.
  • Exploring patterns like those noted above in relation to U.S. healthcare, Medical Sociology is concerned with the distribution of healthcare services globally, in particular inequalities in healthcare, and how conceptions of health have changed over time.

• Introduction

  • Sociology has a long history of studying stratification and teaching about various kinds of inequality, including economic inequality, racial/ethnic inequality, gender inequality, and other types of inequality.
  • These resources might be economic or political, such as health care, education, jobs, property and land ownership, housing, and ability to influence government policy.
  • Do we justify inequality?
  • Can we eliminate inequality?
  • We end with consequences of inequality and theories explaining global inequality.