Upon reading the text, I was disappointed that in the 21st century access to basic resources for survival in health prevention is significantly impeded by the availability of finances. It is sad that health care has reached a point where people are anxious regarding the need to access care without having money. Anxiety aroused as I continued to read about the inequality in the health care system. I was perplexed that inequality is still in existence and questioned myself regarding freedom and unity for all in a country. Not everyone is able to afford healthcare and also higher education, this raises the question of the ability of the poor to overcome their poverty. They are unable to access the resources they need, as a result their life expectancy …show more content…
The Alma-Ata encourages primary health care by bringing health to the communities instead of waiting for people to go for health. I tried to dispel my feelings of disgust for people that sabotaged their own mankind. Today, making a profit is ranked higher than the wellbeing of human beings and providing basic necessities for survival. This is especially true for pharmaceuticals companies who continue to support financial gain. I found relief from this injustice, with solace in corporations such as UNICEF and WHO that support global relief programs. They support humanity regardless of race, color or …show more content…
Primary health care does not only include vaccination or medication, it includes the basic necessities of life, clean water for consumption, shelter, healthy food, and clothing. These are the basic elements for survival; how could one be so cruel to deny another human being of these essentials. I communicated with family regarding the relief projects available and shared with them the importance of their continued support for relief foundations. At first I was confused because corporations assisting in funding relief programs are the same ones who lay behind the curtains, talking about making a profit in this economic crisis. Some promote an alternate agenda through exploiting native people to allow for economic
I chose not to use any of the prompts provided, but instead connect the article to what I learned in my sociology class lass quarter. In class we watched part one of film series of Unnatural causes, titled Unnatural Causes: Is Inequality Making us Sick "In Sickness and in Wealth". While reading the article this reminded me about the cases studied in the film to see whether wealth inequality contributes to making people sick. In the film they focused on the social determinants of health, wealth and education. In both the article and part one of the film Unnatural Causes they focused on three different individuals and how their health are affected by they choices they make and the access they have to care.
The video “In Sickness and In Wealth” is about how healthy your body is connected to your means of health. In this video it views the life of four individuals with different lifestyles and different levels of income. In this video it displays the life of a CEO, lab supervisor, janitor and unemployed mother, all from Louisville, Kentucky. It explained how their social class affect their standard of living as well as their health. In this video demonstrate how social class shapes access to control, resources and opportunity, resulting in a health-wealth incline.
Rowlingson, K. ( 2011). Does inequality cause Health and Social Problems? Birmingham: Joseph Rowntree Foundation.
The focus of public health has been shifted according to events and particularly a community making it hard to define. However this makes it crucial to determine the situation under the recent public health, such as health needs assessment, in order for action to be taken with the economic situation, epidemiological transitions related with stigma, demographic status, health literacy and life course approach, and facilitating day-to-day activities (Wilson and Mabhala, 2013).
Paul Farmer’s Pathologies of Power exposes the brutal realities many oppressed face and the core foundations responsible for those in destitution. He presents these harsh truths through personal stories that shock the reader into understanding the complexity and severity of the issue of healthcare. Poverty’s role is critical in that it may be the root cause of those afflicted with disease, but also prevents those from the needed treatment. Farmer radically calls for a change in healthcare delivery and overall calls for a change that will address and irradiate poverty along with structural inequality.
Mukherjee, S. (2013, July 30). Four Ways That Poverty Hurts Americans’ Long-Term Health. Retrieved November 12, 2014, from http://thinkprogress.org/health/2013/07/30/2381471/four-ways-poverty-impacts-americans-health/
The constitution of the World Health Organization states that “The enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of health is one of the fundamental rights of every human being without distinction of race, religion, political belief, economic or social condition” (Koh and Nowinski 2010 pp 949). One would hope that this sentiment would also include the low income women of our society, however it has become a harsh reality amongst poverty stricken women that fair and affordable health care is difficult to provide for themselves and for their families. Women with an income below the federal poverty level are at a higher risk of being uninsured or under insured than the general population (Legerski, 2012). The inability to acquire adequate health insurance both privately offered and state funded, in particular can be a serious barrier to low income women's ability to seek health care (Magge, 2013). Furthermore poverty can cause some women to engage in dangerous “street involvement” causing health care providers to act with unjust prejudice in regard to their health care (Bungay, 2013). This paper will attempt to further address and justify these broad statements regarding low income women and their relationship to health care. It makes the argument that if we must see the highest attainable standard of health care as a fundamental human right than by not safeguarding our society’s impoverished women from these trials and tribulations are we not, as a country making a concession that low income women are less worthy or these rights?
I grew up in India, where access to food healthcare was very rare. However, my family and I were very fortunate to have many Doctors in our family. This was the only reason why I was able to get good doctors for monthly checkups, and vaccinations as a kid. There were also shortage of pharmacies, however I personally never had to experience any hardship. That does not mean others had the same. Many people were not as fortunate as I was. People who were poor or lower caste had no proper medications or healthcare. They did not have regular health checkups or proper funds to have three meals a day. Poor people are always the target of many unfortunate situations. “You wont see inequality on a medical chart or a coroner's report under 'cause of death.' You wont see it listed among the top killers in the United States each year. All too often, however, it is social inequality that lurks behind a more immediate cause of death, be it heart disease or diabetes,
“The only real nation is humanity” (Farmer 123). This quote represents a huge message that is received in, Tracy Kidder’s, Mountains Beyond Mountains. This book argues that universal healthcare is a right and not a privilege. Kidder’s book also shows the audience that every individual, no matter what the circumstances, is entitled to receive quality health care. In the book Kidder represents, Paul Farmer, a man who spends his entire life determined to improve the health care of impoverished areas around the world, namely Haiti, one of the poorest nations in the world. By doing this the audience learns of the horrible circumstances, and the lack of quality health care that nations like Haiti live with everyday, why every person has the right to healthcare no matter what, and how cost effectiveness should not determine whether or not these people get to live or die. Two texts that also argue this idea are Monte Leach’s “Ensuring Health Care as a Global Human Right,” and Darshak Sanghavi’s “Is it Cost Effective to Treat the World’s Poor.” Leach’s article is an interview with Benjamin Crème that illustrates why food, shelter, education, and healthcare are human rights that have to be available to everyone. He shares many of the same views on health care as Farmer, and the two also share similar solutions to this ongoing problem. Leach also talks about the rapidly growing aids epidemic, and how it must be stopped. Like farmer, he also argues that it is easier to prevent these diseases then to cure them. Furthermore, Sanghavi’s article represents many of the questions that people would ask about cost effectiveness. Yet similar to Farmer’s views, Sanghavi argues that letting the poor d...
Also the essay will discuss the strengths and weaknesses of each approach as this can be an indicator if this approach is applied, whether it can address inequality and improve the health and well being of that individual or society. The essay will use the Dahlgren and Whitehead social determinants of health of need to exemplify the determinants of health showing how these determinants can influence the way health is viewed as holistic or merely an absence of disease. Lastly, the essay will analyse the evaluation with these approaches plus the importance of evaluation to present programs and future programs or activity.
Start talking about access to health care, I would say, Health care is essential for all people but at the same time people have to pay directly for a medical care. If not, so you don’t have the chance to live. This allows rich men and the upper class to have the best health care. The problem is very serious in the US as they don’t have a universal medical care system such as in European countries. Social conflict theory in the US argues that the society provides the best health care but only for rich people, leaving 50 million Americans without health care insurance at present have low incomes. This is the case the movie, John Q, is arguing. A factory worker, whose child needs a transplant, however his medical insurance doesn’t cover the costs of the surgery.
Curing poverty would not only decrease the likeliness of chronic illnesses, it would immensely reduce suicide attempts from high levels of psychological distress and lessen amounts of impairments with health development. More and more people are falling below the poverty line each year. We as a community must act upon this issue promptly to help reduce our nation’s poverty.
Unite for Sight, a well-known not-for-profit organization that is recognized for world renowned health care delivery to those unable to access it for themselves, claims that “many adults living in low-income countries cannot afford to be sick: healthcare costs are high, transportation costs to health facilities accumulate, and taking days off work means lost productivity and lost wages. Undernutrition is a major underlying cause of illness and disease, and one that contributes to additional health care spending” (Unite For Sight). It has been a notorious fact for quite some time in the global community that the inequalities that exist within the classes of society are entirely intertwined. This social fact remains true when analyzing humanities
Primary health care is the indispensable care based on the real – world, systematically sound, socially adequate technique and technology which made unanimously available to the families and every individuals in the community through their fully involvement where the community is capable to afford at a cost to uphold at every phase of their growth in the essence of self-reliance and self-government. Primary health care in international health is associated with the global conference held at Alma Ata in 1978; the conference that promoted the initiative health for all by the year 2000. “Primary health care defined broadly at Alma Ata emphasized universal health care across to all individuals and families , encouraged participation by community members in all aspects of health care planning and implementation and promoted the delivery of care that would be scientifically sound , technically effective , socially relevant and acceptable” (Janice E.Hitchcock,2003). Primary health care is commonly viewed as a level of care or as the entry point to the health care system for its client. It can also taken to mean a particular approach to care which is concerned with containing care, accessibility, community involvement and collaboration between other sectors. The primary health care policy has some principals that have been designed to work together and be implemented simultaneously to bring about a better health outcome for the entire society.
In 2014 in the United States, a study was conducted by the Urban Institute which found that low income families that are living below the poverty line, which at the time was $23,850, were over three times likely to experience limitations due to chronic illnesses. They were also had an increased risk of developing higher rates of diabetes, heart disease, and strokes. Without access to an adequate amount of currency it becomes an impossible task to ensure a healthy mind and body. According to Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs, in order to be self-actualized and be of sound, mind, and body every physiological need must be met. In a low income environment, however, individuals are living day to day to obtain currency to help satisfy their physiological needs. Because it is impossible for their physiological needs to be fulfilled it is impossible that they can go on to the next stages of needs that will assure them a better