Essay On Quality Of Life

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Quality of life varies from community to community, from family to family, and from person to person. To different people, quality of life means different things. For some people quality of life means having enough money to support his/herself and his/her family, for others they see quality in being able to spend enough time with their family, and others it means being able to have the best of what they can attain. Yet, the differing views of quality, and quality itself are different because of social class. Quality of life is diminished for people in lower classes compared with people in higher classes due to jobs and health. To begin with, ability to get medical help correlates with the type of health that individuals have, and their well-being. “Researchers have found an inverse relationship between social class and health. Lower-class standing is correlated with higher rates of infant mortality, eye and ear disease, arthritis, physical disability, diabetes, nutritional deficiency, respiratory disease, mental illness, and heart disease”(Mantsios 198). So, the lower a person’s social class, the more health problems people in that social class will have. As well, Dr.Ranit Mishori of Georgetown University’s …show more content…

Working certain jobs is more hazardous to a person’s health than others. At the Smithfield slaughterhouse, the company will try to keep the plant as clean as they can by using chemicals to kill germs, these chemicals affect the lower class workers health. The lower class people, working on the killing floor and cutting the meats, every morning deal with “burning their eyes and throats” because of the “freshly applied chlorine”(LeDuff 29). Though yes, this practice helps to keep the slaughterhouse more clean, it comes at a cost: the workers on the floor burn their eyes and throats, leading to health issues. On top of that, sometimes the steel bars stop working, as they did in this

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