What stood out as surprising or disturbing for me in the film clips were: they say living in American should be a ticket to good health, and it is not, America spent a trillion dollars a year in medical care and that is nearly half of all the health dollars spent in the world. It shows because we are not living longer, we are sicker than most in the industrialized nation and as far as life expectancy is concern we rank 30th and still 47 million do not have health care. They claim we are getting sick more often could it be the American diet or individual behaviors.
I was not surprise in the “Arriving Healthy” video about the good health some immigrants are in when they come to this country because I was one of those immigrants, and before we came to this country we were doing everything right and if most of us could remember we should have spread the health benefits to the American society. What was disturbing too was these new Americans (immigrants coming to America) have become like “old” American, they getting …show more content…
Adewale Troutman, says that he promotes individual responsibility, but always within the context of social determinants. He says he do push personal responsibility. He too pushes self-determination in health, but it has to be seen in the context of the broader issues of social determinants, which are the major forces that shape the health outcomes of people and communities. Dr. Troutman linked it to the effects not being mutually exclusive. It is about economic status and health care, fairness, health equality and social justice, and human rights so if like he said, we can organize and implement steps we would be able to move the community ahead. It’s about addressing social determinants of health to make a difference. He further stated that he hopes we would all be able to gravitate towards an egalitarian society where health is seen as a basic human right and if you do not get involve because of self-interest it would indicate you too is at
I was not surprise in the “Arriving Healthy” video about the good health some immigrants are in when they come to this country because I was one of those immigrants, and before we came to this country we were doing everything right and if most of us could remember we should have spread the health benefits to the American society. What was disturbing too was these new Americans (immigrants coming to America) have become like “old” American, they getting …show more content…
Adewale Troutman, says that he promotes individual responsibility, but always within the context of social determinants. He says he do push personal responsibility. He too pushes self-determination in health, but it has to be seen in the context of the broader issues of social determinants, which are the major forces that shape the health outcomes of people and communities. Dr. Troutman linked it to the effects not being mutually exclusive. It is about economic status and health care, fairness, health equality and social justice, and human rights so if like he said, we can organize and implement steps we would be able to move the community ahead. It’s about addressing social determinants of health to make a difference. He further stated that he hopes we would all be able to gravitate towards an egalitarian society where health is seen as a basic human right and if you do not get involve because of self-interest it would indicate you too is at