Health Care Social Analysis

Health-care is a sociological institution within the American Culture. Health-care has many different aspects that pertain to patients, care givers and governmental approach to supply healthcare to all citizens. Sociology is the “scientific study of social behavior and human groups.” (Schaefer, 2009) Sociology plays a large role in how Americans look at our health-care systems and approach health and illness in one’s own life.

In Health and Social Care when planning change outcomes need to be Major Service change must put patient and users of the first to ensure that changes will be implemented successfully and this will help to improve outcomes, reduce health inequalities and models of care. (NHSCC)

Health care economics involves making plenty of choices. Individuals, groups, businesses, and organizations choose how to use resources . Economics and health care are linked, because health care professionals apply economics in their everyday professional activities. They are able to do this through resource allocation. Any health care organization has to plan out how they will use their resources to their advantage. Health care economics are able to incorporate terms like cost, quality, and resources. In this paper, I will compare these terms as they relate to health care economics. In this paper, I will also explain how they

In chapter three of our book it talk about the basic function of families meeting the needs of their disabled child which includes day-to-day task such as cooking, cleaning , laundry, transportation and health care. Brandy meets all of Marks’ needs staring her day with a walk with the family dog at 5:30 am. After her walk with the dog is completed she gets Marks’ medication ready before she wakes him up. Brandy prepares the medication the night before. Brandy wakes Mark up at 5:50 she gives Mark a shower and she dress him for school because Mark has grown this process takes about twenty minutes.

Client's perspective on a charity would be to get sympathetic help, as they don't need staffs that regard them with no appreciation as that would do their condition no great, to put weight on themselves and additionally staff putting weight on them. Additionally, they would expect great administration from the charities as they are now in a horrible

Have you ever thought about putting yourself in the shoes of someone who is marginalized or considered vulnerable? As for I, I do not have to live everyday wondering if I will be attacked, harmed or the way I will be treated based on who I am. For many people, this is something that they deal with every day.

As a country Canada prides itself on Universal health care for everyone equally (Macqueen, 2011). However, there are many discrepancies seen in the health care that Aboriginals and non-aboriginal Canadians receive (Weeks, 2013). As a result, Aboriginals health is deteriorating in nearly every aspect on a much larger scale than the rest of the Canadian population (Weeks, 2013). As reported in the article Aboriginal seniors face more challenges staying healthy, accessing care: report from “The Globe and Mail” aboriginal seniors are struggling accessing health care and staying healthy (Ubelaker, 2013). Aboriginals are much more susceptible to health issues such as chronic diseases, disabilities and infections and are having to travel unethical distances in order to access health centres (Weeks, 2013).

Health is a broad topic that branches out into medicine and public health. Health promotion is an essential stage for health care providers to help raise awareness and prevent disease and illness. The social determinants of health are guidelines to relate illness and prevention. They are differences in health care status of population based on certain criteria’s such as income, education, housing, etc. both nationwide and worldwide (Kozier et al, 2014).

This report is about Harry a 66 year old male service user who was diagnosed with Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) since he was 55 years old. He was a very heavy smoker during his mid 40s which led to his weight gain. And this also led to his breathing problems. Two years ago Harry had a stroke which left him loosing his physical functioning abilities on his right side. After his stroke Harry was moved into a nursing home.

Indeed, “Social determinants are relevant to communicable and non-communicable disease alike”¹. The healthcare system work and is different among the countries and some parameters that help to maintain these inequalities are the poor control of major diseases which influenced directly on the life of expectancy. Second poverty which is linked to infectious diseases and third the poor conditions where people live and work which contribute to the mental, physical and violent deaths¹.

I, too, have seen first-hand some of the issues of socialized or universal healthcare. A good friend is from Canada, and she moved to the U.S. before her family. While she was here, her son fell while skiing and severely fractured his leg. He had to stay in the hospital, NPO for 4 days before an orthopedic surgeon arrived to care for him. My friend was livid and powerless to do anything different. She shared with me that healthcare was a major reason for her decision to move to the U. S.

The “Sociological Perspective on Health and the Health Care” introduced perspectives about social structure, and social relations. The readers learn the sociological theory and the main misconceptions related to health care, and their policies. It provides an explanation of the production and the distribution of health care services. Firstly, structural functionalism focuses on individuals and groups in society and how it maintains a social role. Furthermore, symbolic interactionism focus on the conflicts in interaction amongst individuals. Moreover, social constructionism focuses on the medical facts and social authority and the reign over all in society. Also, gender and race influence the social conditions, and implications evident in Canadian health. Class conflicts with the control of power and the relationship between the employers and employees. It enhances the inequality evident in workplaces and the social stratification; ranking one by their assets. Materialism portrays that society is a social consensus rather than a conflict. However, this conflicts between the rich and the poor. Therefore, the healthcare impacts the minority, and affects it the most. Since the rich have an advantage of other options, however the minority struggles to afford private health care or buy their way around. Furthermore, the Marxist theory and oppression focuses on the exploitation by capitalism. It emphasizes on

In our textbook, according to the Grossman model, “Education improves individual's’ efficiency in producing health. This means that persons with higher educational attainment are better at evaluating their health and seeking medical attention when it is appropriate to do so.”(Health Economics Textbook) Therefore educational attainment can impact demand for health care services in multiple ways. Patients who are higher educated may understand what their physician diagnoses them with and also their advice. This may lead to patients demanding higher levels of health in multiple forms, such as treatments and different types of medical equipment to treat said issue. Educational attainment could also lead to patients familiar medical knowledge from school to finding other remedies outside of a physician.

This topic is of interest because it is showing the relationship that health has on economics. It has discussed widely on how health issues have affected the economy. It is explaining the question of whether it 's a positive or an adverse effect. We are going to discuss generally on various aspects of health. They can be mental health economics, behavioral health economic and other factors. This factors will be used to explain on the whether saving on health care is affecting the economy and how it has influenced its performance. Therefore the discussion will be broad concerning the issues of health and economy (Slottje & Tchernis, 2010).

Economists have long explored the relationship between medical service consumption and health insurance demand, and found that they are dependent upon each other (DING Jihong, ZHU Minglai, 2007). The relationship between the demand of health insurance and the demand of health care of a nation has a strong relationship between, the reason lies behind the fact that health insurance is not bought by a customer in order to obtain a good, but as a mean of been able to pay health related services in the future (Feldstein, 1973). Having health insurance also affects the demand of health care, specifically when looking at people that could use health care services based on the fact that they’re assured and use the health care as a prepaid service. Since health insurance twists the real price that people pay to utilize health care, there is a great possibility for a moral hazard (Arrow, 1963; Manning et al., 1987).