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Unit 18INEQUALITIES IN HEALTH AND ILLNESS.
a) DISCUSS THE IMPACT OF SOCIAL, ECONOMIC,
ENVIRONMENTAL DEVELOPMENT TO CHANGES IN MORBIDITY
IN THE UK.
a) SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT – example : age, education, sex, work
environment , lifestyle and others.
i) EDUCATION - tends to lead to a more accurate health
beliefs and knowledge and also ensuring a person to make
better lifestyle choices, and better skills and greater self
advocacy. It tends to improve a persons skills , such as
literacy, effective habits developments, and improve a
cognitive ability. When a person has a good education, it
helps them , live longer lives, and also lead to more wealth.
When sex education are being taught in schools, it helps
students know the limitations of being teenage parents,
and most times , less likely to become teenage parents,
than those who do not receive any formal sex education.
Teenagers who become pregnant , while in school, might
have to drop out.
ii) Lifestyle – A person life style can have an impact on
morbidity and mortality. This can be seen through : the
kind of food, a person eats , if the person smokes ( it has a
harmful impact, on the person health, and is the largest
cause of ill health and premature mortality, in England).
iii) LIVING ENVIRONMENT - A person living environment
plays a big impact on morbidity and mortality, in that
when a persons living environment, is very poor. It can
lead them to fall very sick, and be exposed to toxins or
substances , that can make a person sick. Examples are
chemicals from cigarettes, unsafe drinking water and
others . these symptoms can be fever, cough, rash and
others. A persons living environment can be improved by
making sure that , getting rid of the sources of pollution,
increase the amount of fresh air coming into ones homes
and others.
b) ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT TO CHANGE IN MORBIDITY,
MORTALITY IN THE UK.
Example: poverty, employment, access to adequate food, secure
housing and others.
, i) POVERTY - increase the changes of poor health,
whereby it can make a person , to get infectious disease. It
occur mainly in vulnerable and poor people, every year.
ii) Employment - when a person has a good job, it helps to
improve the person health and well being and others. If a
person does not have a good paying job, it can lead to a
person not getting the basic things of life.
iii) ACCESS TO ADEQUATE FOODS - when a person has
access to good and enough foods, it helps in the optimal
growth, development, health and well being of a person , in
all stages of live. It can help to reduce chronic , disease
(heart, stroke) and others.
C) ENVIRONMENTAL DEVELOPMENT - exposes to
hazardous substances in the air, water, soil, food, climate
change, natural and technological disasters, occupational
hazards, built environment and others.
i) EXPOSURE TO HAZARDOUS SUBSTANCE - when one
is exposed to chemicals, in the workplace and others. It can
lead to short and long term health effects: examples: skin
rashes, poisoning and others.
ii) NATURAL AND TECHNOLOGICAL DISASTER – has a
very big impact on the health of people, which can be
immediate , delayed and others. Death, injuries, and
others, are usually caused by destruction of building
infrastructure and others.
21.1) AN EXPLAINTION OF PATTERENED
INEQUALITIES IN HEALTH AND ILLNESS.
Patterned inequalities in health, tend to differ from one health issue to the
other, example, in the black minority ethnicity, that tends to have very
high levels of cardiovascular disease, fibroid and other black related
illnesses, while than the white British people, who tend to have dementia,
cancer and others. Most ethnic health issues tend to be different from
each other, due to age grades, and is seen mainly in the elderly. Some
ethnic differences that happen in health differs among generations .
example the black minority groups born in the UK, can be worse than
those in the first generations migrants. The causes of ethnic health
inequalities ; are that most times, they are because of genetic or
biological differences. It might also be as a result of cultural and health
issues. They are also as a result of socioeconomic disadvantages. They
are a result of racist experiences.
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