Socio Economic Factors And Good Health

Another U.S. study found that low availability of emotional support and low social participation were associated with all-cause mortality.

Socio-economic class or socio-economic status (SES) may refer to mixture of various factors such as poverty, occupation and environment. It is a way of measuring the standard and quality of life of individuals and families in society using social and economic factors that affect health and wellbeing ( Giddens and Sutton, 2013). Cockerham (2007 p75) argues: ‘Social class or socioeconomic status (SES) is the strongest predictor of health, disease causation and longevity in medical sociology.’ Research in the 1990s, (Drever and Whitehead, 1997) found out that people in higher SES are generally healthier, and live longer than those in lower SES.

“Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander people have a greater amount of disadvantage and significantly more health problems than the non-Aboriginal & Torres strait Islander population in Australia”

According to the World Health Organization (WHO, 1978), health can be defined not only in terms of absence of disease, injury or infirmity, but also, as a state of mental, physical and social well-being. Over the last decades, many studies have emphasized the role of social circumstances on health status. The tight link between health and a wide range of socioeconomic, environmental and demographics factors have been increasingly recognized and proffer an alternative perspective on how to consider public health, social justice and even restructuring of the health care system (Daniels et. al., 2004). The increasingly acknowledgement that health is also a result of cumulative experience of social conditions and exposure to environmental

Health Promotion This is the process of allowing people to have more control over their health as this will help improve their health and well-being. It focuses on individual behaviour towards a wide range of social and interventions. Health promotion is how health is shown for example to challenge obesity change 4 life is used so people can have a guidance on how to make their lifestyle healthier. It also shows that health promotion is aimed at individuals whose health is at risk from any diseases from lifestyle factors, which lets individuals take control over their health. By being able to have control over their health it shows individuals what may have happened if nothing was done of it

Health education takes place within the context of social and economic settings. All programmes for health-related behaviour change have a cost in term of resources, money, time or social and economic factors. In this report I will be talking about Jamie Oliver approach the strength and weakness of his healthy eating approach. For example Jamie Oliver strives to improve unhealthy diets and poor cooking habits in the United Kingdom and the United States but the government spend a lot of money to campaign his idea and to promote healthier school meals.

In the 21st century obesity within the UK was starting to become a major concern, after the issue of smoking had been dealt with. In order to get a handle on the growing problem of obesity, the prime minister at the time released a new piece of legislation otherwise known as “Choosing Health: Making healthy choices easier”. This piece of legislation was designed with the

I have also found discrimination for people within HIV/AIDS and tuberculosis in my society because of lack of education. Furthermore, I also used to provide education as a health professional. I found it is effective for prevention of infectious diseases in case of socio-economic condition of people in Nepal where they have difficulty to access health care system and resources. In Nepal, we still believe in traditional treatment. Most people still use traditional medicine instead of using biomedicine of Western societies. “Unlike in the Australian context, in many poorer countries biomedicine is not the primary source of health care” (WHO as cited in Germov 2009, p.75).This may be due to unavailability of health care services in little distance. In contrast, I have found lifestyle health problems in Australia such as obesity, diabetes and cancer. Lifestyle behaviour is more likely to influence peoples’ health such as diet, exercise, smoking, alcohol and other drugs (Germov, 2009). I think it is exactly true as I have seen in modern Australian society that most of people are smoking and drinking alcohol which is affecting society in many ways, causing road traffic accidents and property damage. I think most people in Australia like to have junk food and go out for meals because of their busy life which can cause obesity. To examine why it is caused? I think it is a good idea to use social imagination to describe the different

Healthy lives, Healthy people (DH, 2010a) outline how public health challenges are to be tackled; including recognising lifestyle driven health problems (Chan & Woo, 2010). The DH policies aim to improve the public health of the population, consequently the DH recognises the issues can be related to health inequalities (Dahlgren & Whitehead, 2007). The wealthier population live longer than the poor (Karlsson, Nilsson, Lyttkens & Leeson, 2010). Healthy Lives, Healthy People state people in the poorest areas die on average 7 years earlier than those living in the richer areas and spend up to 17 more years living with ill health (DH, 2010a). Consequently, it is paramount that inequalities in health are reduced as a result each person has access to the same care (DH, 2016a). Our Health and Wellbeing today (DH, 2010b) accompanies the white paper Healthy lives, Healthy people (DH, 2010a). Our Health and Wellbeing today (DH, 2010b) utilise an extensive approach to looking at health and wellbeing, identifying that health is not just about the existence of disease or illness, but how a person’s general health is (Patton et al, 2012). People are living longer than ever before which means the success in improving in addition to building on public health raises further challenges (DH,

Social determinants of health are social, economic and physical factors that affect the health of individuals in any given population. There are fourteen social determinants of health but Income is perhaps the most important of these because it shapes living conditions, influences health related behaviors, and determines food security. In Canada, people with lower incomes are more susceptible to disease/ conditions, higher mortality rate, decreased life expectancy and poorer perceived health than people with high incomes. In numerous Canadian studies and reports, there has been more emphasis on health being based on an individual’s characteristics, choices and behaviours, rather than the role that income plays as a social determinant of health. Although Canada has one of the highest income economies in the world and is comprised of a free health care system, many low income families are a burden on the system because of the physical and mental health issues influenced by income insecurity. Low income individuals are heavier users of health care services because they have lower levels of health and more health problems than do people with higher incomes. This essay will address income as a social determinant of health in three key sections: what is known on the issue, why the issue is important and how can health and public policies address the issue. The main theme that runs through the essay is the income related health inequalities among low income groups compared to

A communicable disease chain is the mechanism by which an infective agent or pathogen is transmitted. The chain requires an infective agent, a source of infection, a mode of transmission and a host. An example of an infective agent could be bacteria, a virus, fungus, protozoan or helminth. The source of infective agents can be transmission from host to host, an infected human or animal, insects, soil or livestock. The mode of transmission is how the infective agent is carried from host to host. Transmission can be by air, ingestion or physical contact. To complete a life cycle or to replicate, the infective agent requires a host.

In the last few years, nurses and other healthcare professionals (HCPs) are under the spotlight of the media and the public due to issues addressed in documents such as The Francis Report (2010). This is good in a sense though as it gives us the opportunity to better ourselves as HCPs and improve the standard of care for everyone. It is now a widely known idea that there are many different factors that affect our health and wellbeing not just biological factors as believed to be the case not very long ago when a biological view was taken when addressing a person's health. However, this has all changed for the better where now healthcare is individualised, holistic and takes in to account the individuals own circumstances i.e. the social determinants of health and wellbeing (social determinants), not a simple one size fits all approach. This essay is going to discuss some of these factors so that we can learn to reduce these inequalities in healthcare and make great healthcare more accessible to everyone. The factors that will be discussed are individual lifestyle choices, housing conditions and .

This essay will discuss ways in which a person’s socioeconomic class and his/her social situation can have an impact on his/her health, using examples. We believe that there is a direct link between socioeconomic/social class and health (Adler et al. 1994). I will be defining the key terms: socioeconomic and health, social class then proceed to discuss about how poverty, income, employability, environment and housing can impact on a person’s social situation and their health.

Nicholas C. Arpey, Anne H. Gaglioti, and Marcy E. Rosenbaum, three interesting authors, claim a person's socioeconomic affects their health outcomes and the health care they recieve and that more people should be aware of this problem. The authors claim that people of lower SES are more likely to have worse self-reported health, lower life expectancy, and suffer from more chronic conditions when compared with those of higher SES. Few studies have investigated whether patients of low SES are aware of the attitudes and practices physicians have been shown to have when caring for low SES patients, in order to show how such perceptions affect the way low SES patients interact with the health care system and their providers. The author’s seem like

This essay discusses how social constructions have an effect on obesity and what combination of causes and contributing factors it includes can lead to obesity. `Obesity is the term used to describe someone who is overweight and unhealthy. Obesity shortens life by an average of 10 years. It is very common in the UK and results from a study back in 2014 showed that a whopping 65.3% of men and 58.1% of women are obese here. (UniversityOfBirmingham,2016) Being over weight is generally associated with being lazy and unpleasant. There are a lot of media groups that have influenced our society’s perception on obesity and many factors that lead to the disease. Obesity can be life threatening and can be the start of lethal conditions such as diabetes,