Socioeconomic Status and Health Care
Adria Balaam
Sothern New Hampshire University
There is a correlation of socioeconomic status ad health care. Even with the implementation of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act in 2010, there still seems to be disparities caused by socioeconomic status within healthcare. The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act requires that an individual have health care or be taxed if they do not. It was enacted to increase the quality and affordability of health insurance, lower the uninsured rate by expanding public and private insurance coverage, and reduce the costs of health care for individuals and the government (Pear, R. 2012). Socioeconomic status is frequently implicated as a contributor to disparities in health care (Shavers, 2007). There are inconsistent results in studies regarding socioeconomic status and healthcare. This is due to lack of precision and reliability of measures, difficulty in collecting individual socioeconomic status data, and inaccurate or misleading interpretation of study results (Shavers, 2007). These …show more content…
Health care coverage seems to be unequal depending on how much an individual pays for it. The lower the cost of the health insurance coverage, the less it will cover or the higher the co-payments and deductibles will be. People who have a lower socioeconomic status tend to live in poorer neighborhoods that have a higher rate of residential overcrowding, violence and pollution. Those that have no insurance or higher deductibles and co-payments will tend not to get preventative health care services. Lower socioeconomic status has also been associated with a sedentary lifestyle and poorer nutrition, both of which effect the health status of an individual (Women in Government,
Adria Balaam
Sothern New Hampshire University
There is a correlation of socioeconomic status ad health care. Even with the implementation of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act in 2010, there still seems to be disparities caused by socioeconomic status within healthcare. The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act requires that an individual have health care or be taxed if they do not. It was enacted to increase the quality and affordability of health insurance, lower the uninsured rate by expanding public and private insurance coverage, and reduce the costs of health care for individuals and the government (Pear, R. 2012). Socioeconomic status is frequently implicated as a contributor to disparities in health care (Shavers, 2007). There are inconsistent results in studies regarding socioeconomic status and healthcare. This is due to lack of precision and reliability of measures, difficulty in collecting individual socioeconomic status data, and inaccurate or misleading interpretation of study results (Shavers, 2007). These …show more content…
Health care coverage seems to be unequal depending on how much an individual pays for it. The lower the cost of the health insurance coverage, the less it will cover or the higher the co-payments and deductibles will be. People who have a lower socioeconomic status tend to live in poorer neighborhoods that have a higher rate of residential overcrowding, violence and pollution. Those that have no insurance or higher deductibles and co-payments will tend not to get preventative health care services. Lower socioeconomic status has also been associated with a sedentary lifestyle and poorer nutrition, both of which effect the health status of an individual (Women in Government,