Socioeconomic status refers to an individual’s ability to produce and consume resources (Landsbergis, Grzywacz, & LaMontagne, 2014). It is one of the most important determinants of health and is associated with access to material resources, such as adequate housing, safe neighborhoods, healthy food, clean water, clean air, educational opportunities, and control over ones work (Symbaluk & Bereska, 2016). A lack of these material resources can have a direct or indirect impact on ones health and illness. Socioeconomic status affects an individual’s health and illness through job security, adequate nutritious diet, and has an impact on lifestyle behaviors. Lower socioeconomic status is consistently linked with job insecurity (Landsbergis et al., 2014).…
Health is not determined solely by people’s genes but is largely shaped by environmental and socioeconomic factors. In Health and in Wealth, the first episode in the documentary series Unnatural Causes: Is Inequality Making Us Sick?, addresses the vast differences between US communities not only on a nationwide range but even at a local scale with a total shift across a single block. As Dr. Troutman notes, “There’s a cultural demarcation in the city where on one side of this particular street, Ninth Street, there’s a tremendous amount of new developments going on, condos rising up. And right across the street is where the public housing projects begin. Every city has a Ninth Street” (Unnatural Causes 2008).…
Race and health outcomes are heavily correlated and attention to the two needs to be considered. Racial classification has a profound impact on daily life experience and societal perceptions. Racism is a factor in health issues, barriers to receiving medical attention, and the quality of services and care provided. I liked how the article divided the framework for understanding racism into three levels: institutionalized, personally mediated, and internalized. Institutionalized racism often manifests as inherited disadvantage; Internalized racism is defined as the stigmatized races of negative messages about their own abilities and intrinsic worth; and Personally mediated racism are prejudices and…
It is especially important to examine this topic because of the diversity and uniqueness of every individual. No matter the race, there is bound to be some level of prejudice, and every race has some level of power, no matter how big or small the quantity may be. The power can come from socioeconomic status, culture, and genes according to Jones’ article (Jones C, 2000). This means that people from any race have the ability and capacity to choose whether they receive health care based off these conditions. As every individual from across the spectrum, health care is vital and a must in order to prevent and care for illness.…
Jason Butler 3/9/17 SOC100 Discussion #8 It is a common problem, especially in American society today that many racial minorities and individuals possessing low social statuses have poor health as well as shorter life expectancies. This is a result of socioeconomic disparities. Due to many factors such as poverty, lack of healthcare, and poor diet, those individuals described above often have poorer health and shorter lives as they are not able to access healthcare thus leading to illnesses in which can get out of control and lead to a shorter life expectancy. Other factors such as poor diet often lead to poor health as those individuals are not able to eat healthy often eating those foods that are cheaper…
Race and ethnicity has little effect of genetic makeup, but it has a great effect on the level of care that an individual receives. There are many studies indicating that minority groups receive more expensive and lower quality health care. Some studies take a look at whether the site of care affects the quality of care among minority groups and how different lifestyle factors could also influence health. Using race in the health care system creates unnecessary discrimination. This discrimination leads to adverse health effects for minority populations.…
Generally, whites have better health statuses than racial/ethnic minorities. Why is this so? Certainly, there are a number of factors associated with this problem such as one’s socioeconomic status and social support, but one of the main reasons is mistrust and/or communication difficulties with one’s physician. A patient-physician non-concordance relationship impacts disparities in patient satisfaction and delivery of health care services due to trust and communication barriers. In fact, there are numerous studies that examine trust and communication between a patient and his/her doctor on two racial groups, namely, whites and another minority group (i.e. blacks).…
Social economic status is one of the current health disparities, and according to Health Policy Institute, Cultural Competence in Health Care provides that among older adults, a higher proportion of African Americans and Latinos, compared to Whites, report that they have at least one of seven chronic conditions – asthma, cancer, heart disease, diabetes, high blood pressure…
Giger and Davidhizar Transcultural Assessment Model Joyce Giger and Ruth Davidhizar created the Giger and Davidhizar Transcultural Assessment Model (GDTAM) in 1988. The GDTAM provides a framework for the nursing student to fully assess and best provide care to culturally diverse patients. The GDTAM is composed of six categories, each with its own subsets. The categories are communication, space, social organization, time, environmental control, and biological variations (Giger & Davidhizar, 2002). The purpose of this paper will be to assess the Jewish Orthodox culture using the Giger & Davidhizar Transcultural Nursing Framework; identifying nursing implications regarding end-of-life and suggesting possible interventions.…
1. What does the term health disparities mean? Healthy People 2020 define health disparities as, “a particular type of health difference that is closely linked with social, economic, and/or environmental disadvantage” (“Disparities,” n.d., para.5). Health disparities affects groups of people who have a difficult time with their health.…
The article, Assuring The Health of Immigrants: What the Leading Health Indicators Tell Us, discusses the health of immigrants as it pertains to the leading health indicators, which are important public health issues that require action and are measurable. The “ability of immigrants to access health-care services varies widely, depending on their immigration status, their country of origin, and their ability to navigate linguistic and cultural barriers” (Kandula, Kersey, and Lurie 2004,…
Health disparities is a profound difference in healthcare opportunities and services available to the general public. It can be based on certain factors such as, race, social class, economics, and or environmental disadvantages, (Kotch, 2010). Health disparities usually affect people that have experienced obstacles in life because of those certain factors mentioned earlier, and those who have always been discriminated against. Whether it was because of color, gender, sexual preference, or geographic disadvantages, they stepped outside of the norm accepted by society and have to suffer inequalities in health care. 2.Which racial/ethnic groups are more likely to be affected by health disparities?…
serves." (pg 518) The authors argue that there is a cultural clash between the aboriginal peoples and the non-aboriginal peoples in Australia and believe that aboriginal peoples cannot receive adequate healthcare, of historic mistrust between them and their health care providers. The authors also claim that there is little or no motivation to change things politically. The authors want the non-aboriginal population to learn about the aboriginal culture and stop patronizing the aboriginal peoples and calls for both social and political change to end health care disparities in Australia.…
Healthcare is more than just the care that you receive in a hospital. Poverty, lack of employment, and lack of housing all fall into that category. And all racial bias can and does take part in these implements of health. It seems people are hesitant to claim that there is healthcare discrimination. Some of the leading causes of death include heart disease, stroke, cancer, diabetes, kidney disease, homicide, hypertension, and liver cirrhosis; African Americans have higher death rates than whites in all of these categories.…
Since the use of genetic data to define the validity of race erupted in the 1970’s, some scientists have addressed the notion that genetic variation by means of racial differences represents a form of racialization and therefore racism, in healthcare settings and within health spectrums in general. By using race as an indicator of genetic disparities we are acknowledging race as a biologically based enigma rather than a social construct. We allow discrimination to color a picture of embodied inequality among healthcare measures. Just as the anthropological definition of culture defines cultures as static entities defined by geographic boundaries, we cannot perceive race as a biological marker of genetic variation because it to is complex and static. Human biology, no matter what geographic location one hails from, is…