Health Inequalities: What Are The Social Determinants Of Health?
What are the social determinants of health? While there is general health improvement over the last few decades, why is there still a widening gap of health inequalities?
The World Health Organization (WHO) defines the social determinants as the conditions in which people are born, grow, live work and age. These situations are shaped by the distribution of money, power and resources at global, national and local levels.
What is the changing general health improvement over the last decade? For the medical instrument, some machine is more widespread so that the cost of the service can be deducted and more people can use this kind of machine. Such as, X-ray machine, hyperacoustic machine. For the medical technique, more technique are invented …show more content…
According to the world health organization (WHO) definition, health inequalities mean differences in health status or in the distribution of health determinants between different population groups. For example, differences in mobility between the elderly and younger populations or differences in mortality rates between people from different social classes. It is important to distinguish between inequality in health and inequity. Some health inequalities are attributable to biological variations or free choice and others are attributable to the external environment and conditions mainly outside the control of the individuals concerned. In the first case it may be impossible or ethically or ideologically unacceptable to change the health determinants and so the health inequalities are unavoidable. In the second, the uneven distribution may be not required and avoidable as well as unjust and unfair, so that the resulting health inequalities also lead to inequity in …show more content…
First and foremost, on the one hand, In the USA, rich people are generally having a better health because they can possess higher quality of health service. It calls concierge medicine which means they can use money to obtain to the upscale and high-end medical service beyond what is provided in a standard health-care facility. In addition, Rich people can use some expensive medicine to cure their disease or extend their life. For example, gallstones, diabetes and elective procedures for hernia. Also, rich people can pay the costly surgery expenses. The surgery includes cardiac, diagnostic and surgical care. It increases rich people life expectancy. According to the Authoritative information and statistics to promote better health and wellbeing (AIHW), Life expectancy is the most commonly way to describe population health. Life expectancy measures how long, on average, a person is expected to live based on current age and sex-specific death rates. It is usually indicated as the number of years of life a person born today is expected to live. On the other hand, poverty people just apply the limited service worse still is they can’t any service. In Alameda County, a private hospital refused a woman in labor because the hospital's computer demonstrated that she didn't possess insurance. One hour later, her baby
The World Health Organization (WHO) defines the social determinants as the conditions in which people are born, grow, live work and age. These situations are shaped by the distribution of money, power and resources at global, national and local levels.
What is the changing general health improvement over the last decade? For the medical instrument, some machine is more widespread so that the cost of the service can be deducted and more people can use this kind of machine. Such as, X-ray machine, hyperacoustic machine. For the medical technique, more technique are invented …show more content…
According to the world health organization (WHO) definition, health inequalities mean differences in health status or in the distribution of health determinants between different population groups. For example, differences in mobility between the elderly and younger populations or differences in mortality rates between people from different social classes. It is important to distinguish between inequality in health and inequity. Some health inequalities are attributable to biological variations or free choice and others are attributable to the external environment and conditions mainly outside the control of the individuals concerned. In the first case it may be impossible or ethically or ideologically unacceptable to change the health determinants and so the health inequalities are unavoidable. In the second, the uneven distribution may be not required and avoidable as well as unjust and unfair, so that the resulting health inequalities also lead to inequity in …show more content…
First and foremost, on the one hand, In the USA, rich people are generally having a better health because they can possess higher quality of health service. It calls concierge medicine which means they can use money to obtain to the upscale and high-end medical service beyond what is provided in a standard health-care facility. In addition, Rich people can use some expensive medicine to cure their disease or extend their life. For example, gallstones, diabetes and elective procedures for hernia. Also, rich people can pay the costly surgery expenses. The surgery includes cardiac, diagnostic and surgical care. It increases rich people life expectancy. According to the Authoritative information and statistics to promote better health and wellbeing (AIHW), Life expectancy is the most commonly way to describe population health. Life expectancy measures how long, on average, a person is expected to live based on current age and sex-specific death rates. It is usually indicated as the number of years of life a person born today is expected to live. On the other hand, poverty people just apply the limited service worse still is they can’t any service. In Alameda County, a private hospital refused a woman in labor because the hospital's computer demonstrated that she didn't possess insurance. One hour later, her baby