Inequalities in Health and illness Essay

Inequality is the existence of unequal opportunities and rewards for different social positions or statuses within a group or society. In a country with a high level of inequality there are higher levels of health and social problems. Also no one is better off in a country that has a high level of inequality. A rich person in a more equal society is better off than one in a more unequal society. Richard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett's book "The Spirit Level" does a great job at pointing out how…

held higher than most of my clients and is that of a middle class citizen. An overwhelming majority of people with mental disabilities live within poverty and are subjected to poor physical health. This aspect of my social location might affect my work with my clients because, unaware to the daily inequalities and oppressions my clients face, how will I be able to provide them with the services they need if because of my statues I do not understand what they…

This essay will debate differing approaches to health inequalities surrounding ‘mental health’, ‘social class’ gender, it will provide a critical understanding In line with ‘biomedical model’ classification of health. The focus is to analyse health inequalities in relative to social class, discussing whether policy and its implementation translate into to practice, whilst investigating the disparities in the prevision of health services dependent on class status. Hence it will unpack previous…

Lieberman correctly highlights the reality that the US mental health care system has failed many individuals. However, his assertion that violent crime offenders commonly have untreated severe mental illness is misleading. Following tragedies such as the murder-suicide perpetrated by Vester Lee Flannagan II (1), many like Dr. Lieberman inaccurately proclaim that these occurrences have a primary common denominator: persons with severe mental illness. Not only does this further stigmatize an…

psychology areas) and health (health care) models presented in Chapter 1“Health and Illness. Sociological and Social-psychological approaches” I managed to reveal some major ideas. As evaluative concepts, health and illness can be largely viewed as ways and mecha-nisms in which a certain population perceived health upon specific value system, cultural as-pects, social norms and attitudes of this population. On the other hand, a scientific approach cannot ignore objective evidences on health,…

Measuring health- Health and illness is measured by statistical trends. There are three main causes to this. Firstly is the government statistics. It is when the Office of National Statistics takes responsibility for the recent information’s about the health and care issues around the world. The periodicals involves the Social Trends, Population Trends and more trends that is involved with health and illness. All of the periodicals also takes responsibility for the birth, death, infant…

Income inequality for millions has created a public health crisis to include drug abuse, violence, suicide, mental illness, and chronic disease within the disadvantaged communities in the United States. To further disparity, some states did not expand the Medicare and Medicaid eligibility under the Affordable Care Act; thus, vulnerable populations such as the working poor, children, elderly, and disabled are unable to acquire health care coverage. Without health care coverage, treatable and…

Critical review This essay is a Critical review on the availability of mental health service within The National Health Service (NHS) and the policy’s around this area. This piece will look at what is social policy? The Salisbury Centres document the future of mental health and the current Conservative governments manifesto. Social policy is the term given the way in which welfare system are developed within society and the policies that are put in to place by the government that offer…

According to Mehrotra & Wagner, “The term health inequalities refers to the difference in the rate of morbidity (illness) and mortality between diverse groups in the United States.” (p.168). Socioeconomic status, race and gender are factors that affect physical health, mental health and longevity. Those with higher education have a higher morbid rate than those who do not. The American Society of Aging states, “Education is a powerful determinant of social and economic position. People with…

average life expectancy, there is health inequality appearing in everywhere; in other words, part of population is vulnerable to variety of mental and physical ailments, due to several factors such as genetics, environment, lifestyle, socio-economic, health care and so on. Among a great numbers of factors, “Socioeconomic status (SES)” is regarded as a fundamental one because people who are in developing countries or in low income families could possibly be in poor health. The social status is…