Socioeconomic Status And Community Analysis

Disparities in access to health services affect people and lead to unmet health needs, preventive medical services, and poor health. Low-income people are less able to afford the out-of-pocket costs of care, even if they have health insurance coverage. Public health insurance programs have expanded coverage for the poor and not enough to close the disparity gap. In order to improve health care services, we must make sure that the District 17 communities have usual and ongoing source of care as people with a usual source of care have better health outcomes. District Council 17 needs increased access to quality care regardless of their ability to pay, insurance status, or other potential barriers to

Williams, and N. E. Moss, in their paper, discuss concepts and methodologies concerning, and guidelines for measuring, social class and other aspects of socioeconomic position (e.g. income, poverty, deprivation, wealth, education). These data is collected at the individual, household, and neighbourhood level, to characterize both childhood and adult socioeconomic position. Guidelines for linking census-based socioeconomic measures are presented, as are recommendations for analyses involving social class, race/ethnicity, and gender. Suggestions for research on socioeconomic measures are provided, to aid monitoring steps toward social equity in health[2].

As discussed in class, the lower an individual’s socioeconomic status is the more likely a health disparity is present. Morland and Morrison discuss how a neighborhoods economic deprivation may compromise resources promoting health. For example, poor and minority neighborhoods tend to have fewer grocery stores with healthy foods (Morland 2002) and fewer pharmacies with needed medications (Morrison 2000). Minorities are more likely to live in areas with building code violations and neighborhoods with deteriorated housing (Perera 2002)

Socioeconomic Status is where a particular person or group of people stand in regards to social class. The main measurement that determines one's socioeconomic status is level of education, occupation and income. Although it may not be considered a factor in child development, socioeconomic status can actually play a huge role in determining what kind of adolescent a child develops into. It can influence a child’s morals, self-esteem, grades and many more aspects of a child's life. Socioeconomic status can play a role in determining where a person resides, the occupation they end up getting, their education and their income as well. So, although one’s socioeconomic status is technically made up of these aspects, one can be born into a low socioeconomic status which could result in them continuing to have one throughout their life. It is a cycle that one must break in order to change the outcome. Low socioeconomic status can result in child poverty. Child poverty over the years has risen and fallen but has remained consistently apparent in America. Child poverty can have detrimental effects on developing children and adolescents. It may influence the way they are raised, taught, cared for and many more aspects of the child's life which are important for successful development. Low socioeconomic status can determine how well children and adolescents develop and the type of person they develop into, including

According to About.com (Elizabeth Boskey, 2014), socioeconomic status is defined as a arrangement of elements including income, level of education, and occupation. It is a way of looking at how individuals or families fit into society using economic and social measures that have been shown to influence individuals ' health and well-being. Socioeconomic status is broken into three categories: high, middle, and low social economic status. These three categories are used to describe the three areas a family or an individual may fall into. When placing a family or individual into one of these categories, these three variables, income, education, and occupation, are usually evaluated. Socioeconomic status and health are closely related, and socioeconomic status typically have significant effects on a person 's health due to differences in ability to access health care as well as dietary and other lifestyle choices that are associated with both finances and education.

There is a strong correlation with an individual or group SES and the quality of health care received. Social Economic Class relates to what group of class an individual fit in based on their income, which can include wages, investments or other source. The quality of care depends on the facilities that is offering the services, the staff, accessibility to the service and the kind of health insurance that the person has. Affording health care is expensive and the lower or poor class has to decide between being able to afford food or other daily needs and going to a clinic for screening. Most of the time, individuals who fall in the class will ignore the health signs while

Socioeconomic status and diversity may affect health status in many ways. “Researchers often use singular indicators of socioeconomic status (SES) such as income, education, or occupational attainment interchangeable. However, the interaction among these indicators differ by racial and ethnic group” (Kominski, 2014, p. 86). Individuals with low-incomes and low-income community’s health status are often negatively impacted due to the inability to receive and maintain adequate health services. The psychosocial pathway theory and material deprivation pathway theory analyze the negative effects that may occur with individuals who have low incomes. The overall condition of a community and the diversity of the people who occupy it also have

My family household income was below the poverty level and we relied on housing assistance During many of my childhood years. I was 12 when my parents separated. My father lost his job and has not contributed financially to the family since. Based on my families experiences and my later service in a clinical setting within my community, I believe the communities in which I grew up were medically underserved. My success, despite the challenges resulting from my socioeconomic and familial background, is proof of my potential to succeed and survive hardships. I hope to use my experiences to inform my practice of medicine in underserved

A person socioeconomic status has the ability to effect a person’s health status in various way. According to Health Affairs (n.d.), “Socioeconomic status (SES) is usually measured by determining education, income, occupation, or a composite of these dimensions. The most fundamental causes of health disparities are socioeconomic disparities. Socioeconomic status has traditionally been defined by education, income, and occupation. Each component provides different resources, displays different relationships to various health outcomes”. A deficit in any of these three component has a downward cascading effect that can impact a person health. For instance, a lack of education may result in an inability to obtain an occupation that can provide

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.

Health insurance is a result of socioeconomic status that must be looked at by health care providers. Low socioeconomic status individuals usually cannot afford privatized health care insurance. If they can afford health insurance, it is commonly public insurance such as; Medicare and Medicaid. However, public health insurance is rarely accepted by physicians because privatized health insurance is more reliable. This means that less educated individuals have less access to health care based on if they carry insurance, or the type of health insurance they carry. Similarly, poorer people must travel farther than wealthier folks to get medical attention. Low SES individuals are less likely to get care until serious conditions arise because it is not of adequate access or affordability. However, low socioeconomic status areas that do have near by clinics and accept public health insurance are overcrowded. This is a major risk for the health care field because the spread of disease in an overcrowded clinic lowers the health of society. Socioeconomic status includes education levels, occupational status, and social class which all attribute to the effects of poverty, the overall health of society, health care accessibility, and health insurance affordability.

Low income families, are truly affected when it comes to nutrition. This is a result of limited to no access to supermarkets in the communities they live in (Horning, Fulkerson, 2014). According to Horning and Fulkerson, low income communities have more access to fast food than they do nutritious food. In communities where access to healthy foods are limited, everyone health is affected. Children from low income households often lack fruits and vegetables in their diet, nutritious foods are often replaced with fast food or junk food. This affects their growth and relatively leads to children becoming overweight and even obese. Children with obesity often experience discrimination in their communities in addition to being targets of bullying

Socio-economics is an individuals ranking amongst a societial hierarchy. It is difficult to move between different levels in the social hierarchy as you often stay in the one you were born into. This causes a significant disadvantage for many Aboriginals in Canada as they are statistically born into and live in a lower socio- economic status. A persons socio- economic status is indicated or base upon many indicators. These indicators are: race, religion, gender, level of education, housing, amenities, employment and income (Smylie & Firestone, 2015). There is a direct correlation between an individual’s health and their socio-economic status; the lower the status results in a lower overall health (Richmond, 2016).

When people think about our identities, we usually refer to gender, sexuality, race, age, nationality, and religion, however, we do not normally consider our socioeconomic status. Considering the influence of the socioeconomic factors in our lives, it is definitely one of most critical factors building my identity. Socioeconomic status is commonly defined by income, occupation, and education. Minority groups include people who are living in poverty, often in rural or inner-city areas, where resources are limited and educational opportunities are poor (Hays, 2012, p. 4). In another name of this, it is called social class. When people talk about social class, people tend to think about class in terms of income, or the lifestyles that income can buy but class can be better understood as mainly a question of economic and political power (Rosenblum & Travis, 2016, p.128). However, power doesn’t exist alone within an individual or a group, power exists as a relationship between and among different people or groups. This means that we cannot talk about one class of people alone, without looking at relationships between that class and others). there are different types of social classes, the capitalist and the working classes. And between them, there is the “middle class”, used as a term to describe people in the middle of the income distribution and people who work for a wage but live comfortable if modest lives (Rosenblum & Travis, 2016, p.129). I defined myself, as “middle

A person’s socioeconomic status encompasses educational, financial, and occupational factors. The socioeconomic status of an individual is a way of measuring how hard they work in their lifespan. If a person has a low socioeconomic status, that results in low educational successes. When they don’t aim high in the educational realm, they will live in poverty. Individuals who live in poverty, usually have poor health because of mediocre jobs. Most mediocre jobs don’t offer health benefits (Work, Stress, & Health.) In the United States, there are 13.6% of the African American non-Hispanic population who are in poor health. Also from this same population there are 11.2% of these persons under age 65 who does not have health insurance (National Center for Health Statistics). This problem caused health care professionals to look at how cultural differences and socioeconomic status contributes to the access of healthcare available to the African American community.