Inequality In Australia

Finally, age is another social inequality that is taking place in society. However, certain individuals in society has being restricted from certain opportunities based on their age. According to Nick Triggle from BBC News, he reported that thousands of older people are not getting their support from the state or private sector. However, according to the Age UK, they stated that 800,000 older people has being take off from the system and the figure is going to be increase in the future. Society has been unequal in relation to ageing population, the ministers are looking at making an increase in funding based on the ageing population of older people. However, they are looking at excluding older people whose savings are above £23,250. Beside

3. Critically analyse the following quote from Sarah Wise (2011) “As Australians we promulgate the value of a fair go. Yet there are individuals and groups in our society that experience extreme and persistent disadvantage that sets them apart from the rest of our society”. (Reference: Wise, S. (2011) “Advance Australia Fairly” Sydney Morning Herald. January 14, 2011)

Introduction In Canada, political and social forces have shaped the social determinants of health. Factors such as education, income, race, and gender are affected by the legal structure of Canada. Within the determinant of genders, several inequalities have arisen due to the government failing to provide equal support, therefore, the gap between male and females are further segregating society. According to Stats Canada, recent annual data showed that a woman working full time earned 74 cents for every dollar that a working man made.

These were five women who acted as activist and was award and recognize in Canada for making Canada a better place to live. The five incidents that involved gender inequality against women. .Constance Backhouse exposed inequalities, for women and other oppressed groups in Canada. Then, Nahanni Fontaine is a special advisor on aboriginal women's Issues for the Aboriginal Issues. Susan Kathryn Shiner highlighting women's inequality as a root cause of violence against women as an issue, as she became aware of incidents of inequality she worked for social change. Last but no leased Julie Lalonde who studied the impact of poverty and isolation on elderly women making a difference in improving the lives of women and girls to end sexual assault and

Living in a peaceful world would mean that no one (and I mean NO ONE) would go hungry or be without basic medical care; denying individuals access to food, clean water and basic medical care is both in-humane as well as ignorant. The inhumanity of denying food to individuals who cannot by no fault of their own feed themselves when we have supermarkets, refrigerators, and pantries over flowing a bounty of food. Turning away from a person who is hungry, while the US as a nations spends more on its household pets than it does in donations to local food bangs demonstrates ignorance of our understanding that perhaps the stem of violence both here and overseas could be stymied if we’d only offered not only bags of rice but a safe place to grow

Inequality is a problem that has had an effect on the United States for many years. Although throughout the years the severity of inequality has fluctuated, it has increased greatly within the past two decades. There are many factors that could have influenced this increase. Some of the factors include technology and deindustrialization.

As an American, we revel in our freedoms. Not everything is free, however, we have laws that were created for safety. They help keep everyone happy, alive and well. The foundation for these laws came from the founding fathers; they wished for Americans alive then, alive now, and alive years from now feeling safe and free. However, there are fatal flaws in the documents created by the founding fathers. These documents are not effective in establishing and preserving freedoms of Americans because they confined the definition of a valued American to white males as well as allowed the means of corruption to enter our laws through lack of rigidity.

Outline the nature and extent of the health inequities suffered by this group (4marks) (150 words)

This study examined the health inequalities among different socio-economic groups from 2004 to 2014 among Australians whose age ranging from 20 to 65 years old. According to the study, the health risk factor behaviour; smoking by sex results indicated that males smoking were higher than females during the study period. The highest rate of smoking were reported among males in 2004. Smoking status by education groups suggested that the highest rate of smoking were accounted in year 12 or below group in all three years, while university degree holders accounted for the least group. The different income groups showed that the poorest people smoking percentage were higher compared to the richest and the percentage had increased when it was moving

Kenway’s article Challenging Inequality in Australia: Gonski and Beyond is a critical analysis of how Australian governments have evaluated and responded to the issue of educational disadvantage. The piece primarily focuses its critique on how the Review of Funding for Schooling Final Report (Gonski et al, 2011) recognises, and presents solutions for, educational disadvantage within the national education system. The central argument is that, despite the report’s shortcomings, it should be supported as it emphasises issues of socio-educational disadvantage which urgently need to be addressed. It is noted that the Gonski Report, in its description of the “imperatives” of addressing educational disadvantage, reminds the reader that Australian

According to the OECD, the term inequality in the opposite of equity can be defined as evenness

In this study, Najman et al. sought to examine changes over time in the association between socioeconomic status (SES) and smoking status, physical activity, and being overweight or obese in Australia over a twelve-year period. They used data found in three successive national health surveys, which were conducted in 1989, 1995, and 2001. Survey participants were selected with a national probability sampling strategy by the surveying agency, not by these particular researchers. The information was collected by the Australian Bureau of Statistics, which surveyed the health habits of Australians. The survey also used the Index of Relative Socioeconomic Disadvantage, which is a tool that was developed by the Australian Bureau of Statistics and it looks at the socioeconomic characteristics of people living in a specific geographical area. Therefore, while survey respondents were not specifically asked about their personal socioeconomic status, information about that status was derived from information about where they lived. Overall, the study revealed that men were less healthy than women. It showed that people in lower SES areas were more likely to smoke, more likely to be obese, and less likely to exercise. The least SES disadvantaged areas has the greatest decrease in the percentage of people smoking tobacco, the largest decrease

The inequality which existed in Europe and Wales was as a result of the economic power and the rigid social class. Those who owns the means of production controls the economic power and determines what’s best for the state and by extension the country. The unequal distribution of wealth and power among the different social classes was evident in the way society was stratified. Therefore, if a person wants to achieve upward mobility they will have to migrate into a new region where mobility was attainable. The legacy of colonialism has help permeate the hierarchical order in society; as a result both psychological and psycho social effects of the traditional society can be mirrored in today world.

One has seen throughout history that the wealthy has always taken advantage and has always benefited from the poor. Whether it be socially, economically, or politically the wealthy has had overall advantage over the poor. For instance, the wealthy unfairly use the poor’s manual labor without recompensing them for their time and physical labor. In addition, it is evident in Snowpiercer that the wealthy take advantage of the poor and do not recompense them for the physical labor they are forced to do. Instead the poor is kept secluded from the rest of society in a dark, crowded, and unsanitary room.

Inequality between societies within New Zealand. The facts of how the societies in New Zealand, has been affected or can be affect the factors including; biological, educational, family, social and political. Difference of inequality occurs in societies, how it has been treated the societies unequal in many ways. The characteristics affected or can affect the societies to inequality from five factors within poor health, obesity, lifestyles, communities, belief, government promises not honoured. Income inequality has been a crisis to New Zealanders in the last few years, and it has grown fast which affected a large number of people in New Zealand. According to UMR, (2013) online survey, it shows a high number of fifty percentage New Zealanders, are very concerned for the growing inequality in New Zealand.