As the world divides people into low, middle, and high class, it really defines us on how we live in the world. Low socioeconomic people affects the world today. In reality, low socioeconomic can affect anyone around us. Socioeconomic status (SES) is often measured as a combination of education, income, and occupation. Low SES among African Americans is linked to HIV/AIDS.
Low socioeconomic is a serious health disparity that keeps increasing in the United States. It correlates with lower education, poor health and poverty that effects as a whole in the community. Communities are segregated by SES, race and ethnicity. In 2014, U.S Census Bureau conducted a study and 27% of all African American men, women and children live below the poverty level …show more content…
African Americans are at higher risk for involuntary psychiatric commitment than any other racial group. African Americans and Latinos in low-poverty areas were more likely to be referred for commitment by a law enforcement official than any other racial group (Chow et al., 2003). There is a lot of health issues that can effect African American or any race when you live in low socioeconomic environment. You do not have the natural resource or education to properly know what to do. Most people do not want to go to the doctor’s or hospital when they do not have money or health insurance. 18% of African Americans under 65 years are without health insurance coverage. Over 103 million people of color [nationally] suffer disproportionately in the health care system. A larger share of African Americans and Latinos lack a usual place of health care, and they are less than half as likely as whites to have a regular doctor (HCAN) Majority of the African Americans live in the south. As of 2011, there are over 7 million uninsured nonelderly American Americans. In adults that’s about 84%, and the remaining is one million who are 18 and younger. The highest populations lives in Florida with 718,800 uninsured people. Now in 2014, people will require to have health insurance and Medicaid will expand their eligibility to …show more content…
There are 45 percent of people that are infected by HIV are unemployed. The effects of HIV on physical and mental functioning can make maintaining regular employment difficult. Patients with HIV infection may also find that their work responsibilities compete with their health care needs. Individuals infected with HIV are often discriminated against in the workplace, leading to their termination or forced resignation (Dray-Spira, Lert, Marimoutou, Bouhnik, & Obadia, 2003; Kass et al., 1994). I remembered the first time I ever encountered with a HIV patient, I was nervous. I know one wrong move I was capable on having the disease as well. I really did not know what to expect, or what the patient was going to even look like. I was imagining someone very skinny and ill looking. I walked into the patient’s room to greet them and introduce and it’s an African American man that looks perfectly normal to me. He was very kind and funny as well. When I was getting his blood sugars that’s when I had to really pay attention and be careful of what I was doing. I reminded myself, I cannot get this disease if I am having a conversation with him, and it has to be blood on blood contact. People have these stereotype imagines of people with all types of diseases. I can only imagine how people with the disease feel when they around others or how people treat them if they know they have
Low socioeconomic is a serious health disparity that keeps increasing in the United States. It correlates with lower education, poor health and poverty that effects as a whole in the community. Communities are segregated by SES, race and ethnicity. In 2014, U.S Census Bureau conducted a study and 27% of all African American men, women and children live below the poverty level …show more content…
African Americans are at higher risk for involuntary psychiatric commitment than any other racial group. African Americans and Latinos in low-poverty areas were more likely to be referred for commitment by a law enforcement official than any other racial group (Chow et al., 2003). There is a lot of health issues that can effect African American or any race when you live in low socioeconomic environment. You do not have the natural resource or education to properly know what to do. Most people do not want to go to the doctor’s or hospital when they do not have money or health insurance. 18% of African Americans under 65 years are without health insurance coverage. Over 103 million people of color [nationally] suffer disproportionately in the health care system. A larger share of African Americans and Latinos lack a usual place of health care, and they are less than half as likely as whites to have a regular doctor (HCAN) Majority of the African Americans live in the south. As of 2011, there are over 7 million uninsured nonelderly American Americans. In adults that’s about 84%, and the remaining is one million who are 18 and younger. The highest populations lives in Florida with 718,800 uninsured people. Now in 2014, people will require to have health insurance and Medicaid will expand their eligibility to …show more content…
There are 45 percent of people that are infected by HIV are unemployed. The effects of HIV on physical and mental functioning can make maintaining regular employment difficult. Patients with HIV infection may also find that their work responsibilities compete with their health care needs. Individuals infected with HIV are often discriminated against in the workplace, leading to their termination or forced resignation (Dray-Spira, Lert, Marimoutou, Bouhnik, & Obadia, 2003; Kass et al., 1994). I remembered the first time I ever encountered with a HIV patient, I was nervous. I know one wrong move I was capable on having the disease as well. I really did not know what to expect, or what the patient was going to even look like. I was imagining someone very skinny and ill looking. I walked into the patient’s room to greet them and introduce and it’s an African American man that looks perfectly normal to me. He was very kind and funny as well. When I was getting his blood sugars that’s when I had to really pay attention and be careful of what I was doing. I reminded myself, I cannot get this disease if I am having a conversation with him, and it has to be blood on blood contact. People have these stereotype imagines of people with all types of diseases. I can only imagine how people with the disease feel when they around others or how people treat them if they know they have