Essays on Social Determinants Of Health

The prevalence of social injustice had caused an extensive increase in sicknesses and untimely death in developing countries. The upsurge of disease and death as the product of social injustice is allied to insufficient public health services, medical care, other internal and external influences. (Levy, Victor & Sidel, 2005). What constitutes the internal issues are, extreme poverty, extensive discrimination against women, native people, racial and ethnic minorities, the physical and mental incapacitated, and other susceptible groups. (Levy et al., 2005).…...

Pregnancy is the second leading cause of death among adolescent girls between ages 15-19 and around 3 million teenagers undergo unsafe abortions. Adolescent pregnancies remain an international and national concern. Worldwide, teen births account for sixteen out of 300 million births.” One million births occur in girls under the age of 15”. Among developed nations US teens have higher pregnancy rates and ten times more to experience unwanted pregnancies. Discrepancy in adolescent pregnancies was more prominent among racial and ethnic…...

For the last 200 years Native people have actually been victims of discrimination, prejudice and drawback. Poor education, bad living conditions and general hardship are still overwhelming issues for a big percentage of our people and we stay 'as a group, the most poverty stricken sector of the working class' in Australia (Cuthoys 1983). As a people, our rate of persistent disease is still 2. 5 times greater than that of other Australians, and Native individuals in this nation die…...

Introduction You might well think and ask, illness are concerned only with the physical condition of your body, why could one’s illness have anything to do with the society? However, one’s health issue can affect the society in different ways, for example, alcohol abuse and obesity that decrease the morale. On the other hand, health of a person does heavily depend on the traits of the society including standard of living and inequalities. In other words, not only one’s health…...

In discussing health promotion among diverse populations, this author has selected the Hispanic population to show health status in regards to the national average. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, as of July 2013, their estimate is that there are around 54 million Hispanics that live in the United States. This represents 17% of the total U.S. population which makes them the largest ethnic minority. It is estimated that by 2060, they will grow to around 128.8 million (31%) of…...

“Tuberculosis (TB), a multisystem disease with myriad presentations and manifestations, is the most common cause of infectious disease–related mortality worldwide. Although TB rates are decreasing in the United States, the disease is becoming more common in many parts of the world. In addition, the prevalence of drug-resistant TB is increasing worldwide. TB is caused by M tuberculosis, a slow-growing obligate aerobe and a facultative intracellular parasite. The organism grows in parallel groups called cords (as seen in the image below).…...

Health status improves at each step up the income and social hierarchy. High income determines living conditions such as safe housing and ability to buy sufficient good food. The healthiest populations are those in societies which are prosperous and have an equitable distribution of wealth. Why are higher income and social status associated with better health? If it were just a matter of the poorest and lowest status groups having poor health, the explanation could be things like poor living…...

Mental stability or mental health is the way humans react to, think about, and feel about what goes on in their everyday lives. It is a psychosomatic and emotional state of being. Throughout history, people with odd or dangerous behaviors were seen as witches or ones possessed by evil spirits. These people were thrown in prisons or institutions to isolate them from others. Not too long ago, in the 1950’s with a great deal of research and much more highly…...