Inequalities In Healthcare

If taken a survey, where it would ask “which nation do you believe to be the best at healthcare system?” you will find that most Americans believe that it would be the United States, after we are the nation were all dreams are possible to achieve, but in reality it is not. The United States has the highest rating of inequality in the nation, through social class, race and ethnicity, and health exploring how socioeconomic status, race, and ethnic is a mere make-up affect health disparity that occurs daily. In Scott’s article “Life at the Top in America Isn’t Just Better, It’s Longer” refers to three people, each coming from a different background. One belongs to the upper class, the middle class and the lower class, all three suffered from a
Relations that represent a reciprocal approach to social stratification, employment relations moderates social relations over products to the analysis of inequalities in economy it will show that social class is tied to the amount of environmental hazards that one is exposed to. Hazards that increase one’s risk of contracting a disease or maintaining a certain injury that one in a different social class is less likely to encounter. “Class informed everything from the circumstances of their heart attacks to the emergency care each received, the households they returned to and the jobs they hoped to resume.” (Scott, 28) A person’s social class has a significant impact on their physical and mental health, the ability to access undistinguished health programs, given the proper nutrition facts, along with determining their life expectancy. Comparing the cases of Mieles, Wilson, and Gora, each have a unique social aspect that is determining their health outcome, not only is status and class play a factor but if we look closely gender and race play significant roles that help explain the inequality that exists in the United States. In Scotts article two men belong to the class that live a comfortable life, yet the only women in the article is the one that lives in Brooklyn- Queens who also a
The bourgeoisie class determined whether the class owns the means of production, and those that do not own means of production, that sell labor to the bourgeoisie class is the proletariat. Social groups and class in contrast are in the sphere of power and how that powered in distributed. Weber had believed that it was not possible reduce organizations to single dimension factor such as ownership or non-ownership of the means of production, rather Weber had believed that there was a pluralism associated with class structure. As the environmental and social structural conditions produce disaster vulnerability at the macro-level, distributional asymmetries in resources and social inequities at the micro-level in the country may lead to uneven distribution of disaster risks and outcomes. Though the book refers that socioeconomic classes is a mere statistical units it also refers to “ The reality is that there are sharp differences in income and wealth, educational levels, and occupational status among the American population” (Marger, 57) The elite doesn’t associate their selves with the lower class the only time that an elite will be found working in favor of the middle class is during a presidential campaign, my grandmother had always encouraged me to become educated she always repeated “smart people