The Importance Of Money Affecting Public's Health

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The biggest threat to the public’s health is money and its distribution to individuals and communities. Wages for the lower classes, have remained at a rate, which disables workers financially, affects families, and directly affects decisions that impacts health. Possibilities are limited, due to money, resources, and opportunities.
Money has the power to affect individuals on an intrapersonal level. Inefficient money may impair people’s self-concept, attitudes, and behavior. Adults may experience feelings of inadequacy, due to their amount of struggle to support their families. Senior citizens may be affected by their loss of autonomy, due to financial struggles during retirement. These damaged self-concept views, may manifest in altered
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Examples of this may be seen in higher frequency, in lower income communities; that are plagued with depression, drug use, teen pregnancies, and crime. Lisa A. Gennetian poses, people of lower income communities adapt to accept undesired or self-sabotaging behavior, as normal or desired means to survival (Gennetian & Shafir, 2015). Thus, teen pregnancy will provide financial stability from the government; creating another cycle of poverty. Insufficient money may affect individuals on an interpersonal level, interrupting their support system. The struggle to survive has the potential to cause stress on relationships. Spouses, kids, and friendships may all be challenged, causing alienation and rejection. Jessica Halliday Hardie suggests, financial struggle has been correlated with a raise of hostility, loss of intimacy, and a stronger chance of relational dissatisfaction (Hardie & Lucascorresponding, 2015). This may destroy one of the strongest support systems in an individual’s life; one’s …show more content…
Our court system has slowly evolved to different levels of justice. based on financial ability. Our country has previously established laws, based on racism, causing a current economic hazard for the lower class. Policies restricting or even annihilating programs to help these individuals from the lower classes, further threatens to exacerbate the financial crisis for these people. An example of this may be Planned Parenthood. According to Diana Lara et Al., address the issues of Medicaid and it’s coverage for abortions (Lara, Holt, Pena, & Grossman, 2015). Lara insists that the complications of Medicare, lead many women to continue with pregnancy, due to termination options (Lara, Holt, Pena, & Grossman, 2015). Thus continuing the cycle of poverty, through the restriction of opportunity, and potentially setting up the child for the same cycle. Thus the need for planned parenthoods in lower class neighborhoods would be the optimal plan of action. In contrast, motions for defunding for Planned Parenthood, threatens the wellbeing of lower income men and women further, by potentially minimizing resources available to

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