Brook Road The Tale Of Three Families: Case Study

This paper is aimed to provide the analysis and evaluation of the issues regarding health and illness inequalities being raised in the provided case study of “Brook Road, The Tale of Three Families”. The case study involves three families namely The Bradleys, The Khans, and The Huntleys. These families are reflecting different cases of issues related to the inequality in health and illness involving the people from infants to elderly.
Impact of Social, Economic and Environmental Developments to Morbidity and Mortality in the UK
Since the location of the residences of the three families is in the area where people with lower income levels live, the area is found to be noisy and polluted throughout the day. The case of three families is providing
These factors specifically include the exposure of the families to the environment and the behaviour leading to the damaged health (Graham, 2009; Smith, 2003; Ingleby, et al., 2012). The families have been going through the physical environmental risk in terms of inappropriate housing conditions, challenges related to work, and pollution, as well as psychosocial events such as unsupportive relationships in family, and stressful events of life. It can be said that the mixture of the factors determining health differs between the health results because the social, economic, and environmental aspects plays significant role in the increase or decrease in mortality or morbidity rates in the UK (Fritzell & Lundberg, 2007; McAvoy & Wilde, 2008). These intermediary factors are distributed unequally with the children and adults as observed in the case study of three families going through poorer situations while being exposed to the environments damaging their health and are also exposed to the behaviours leading them to damaging health. The unequal exposure of three families to the health risks initiates at the conception and
On the other hand, other theory in this regard finds NHS responsible for providing the services of health enabling them to lead the healthy life. The functional approach provides the factors and forms of illness are the similar aspects based on which the Marxist approach provides different reasons for the illness. There are more perspectives such as social action approach as well as the feminist approach considering the healthcare with the objective perspective. The feminist approach is concerned with the domination of male within the medical profession (McAvoy & Wilde, 2008; Graham, 2009; Ingleby, et al., 2012). Based on this aspect, different conditions of women such pregnancy and child birth are related to the medical issues as they are natural processes bound to occur in every woman in specific phase of their lives. Since, women as observed in the three families of the case study are responsible for balancing their family and work due to which they suffer from the stress and other physical or mental illnesses. On the other hand, the internationalist approach provided the illness as the perspectives of a person as to what sort of condition can define their illness differs for every person. This approach does not consider the cause of illness but considers the illness itself (Dowler & Spencer, 2007; Smith,