This is due to social class. The higher the class the higher the standard of care. Researchers found that some of the 7500 deaths that are among people younger than the age of 65 could have been prevented could have been prevented if inequalities in wealth narrowed to their 1983 levels. If a baby girl is born in leeds she is more than twice as likely to die in the first year of life compared to an infant girl growing up in a dorset town. Alot of studies into health inequalities rely on morality, death, and morbidity, illness, data.
COMMUNITY ASSIGNMENT- Dajarra Health Profile It is alarming in today’s modern era that residents in rural and regional areas of Australia continue to show poorer health than those Australians who live in metropolitan areas especially those who are of Indigenous and Torres Strait Islander demographic where their health status remains unacceptable for the 21st century. Rural areas of Australia are continuing to experience difficulties in recruiting and retaining adequately trained health professionals with residents facing difficulties accessing health services. This report will discuss the outback Queensland community, Dajarra and investigate the health profile of the town which includes cultural diversity, potential health threats and raise
Hospitals with 150 to 300 beds also are more likely to have low RN staffing ratios in medical-surgical units. In contrast, small hospitals with less than 50 beds have lower staffing ratios in intensive care units. There appear to be clusters of low-staff hospitals in certain counties. There is little research to suggest that minimum staffing mandates will improve quality of care, but research on this topic is improving rapidly. Spetz concludes that the "data suggest that some hospitals staff substantially lower than the state average.
Other nearby regions lost two-thirds of their population, and the deaths were by the minute. The loss of lives in Europe is uncountable and too widespread. Moreover, the affected people were the poorer and lower classes as they had the worst hygiene conditions and lived in cramped
Poverty, Coal, and Appalachia Within Appalachia, coal-producing counties are among the most economically distressed counties. The top coal-producing counties have some of the highest poverty rates in the region Of the top eight coal-producing counties in eastern Kentucky, all but one (Pike County) have a higher poverty rate than Appalachian Kentucky as a whole (US Census 2000). So while mining employment is extremely important as a source of income for individuals in coal-producing counties, the benefits of these jobs do not translate into prosperity for the region. Couple that with the fact that Appalachia has twice as many people living in poverty than the rest of the US and it paints a bleak economic picture (US Census 2000). In
The number of live births per year increased due to several factors such as children were used to work on farms (source of income) and in those days there was no reliable contraception and little education. The number of people dying was also high but still less in proportion to the birth rates. This was due to poor medical knowledge and poor diet, water and sanitation. More recently the birth rate has decreased and this is due to social, economic, cultural, legal, political and technological factors. A mixture of these factors led to the change in the position of women in society, the increase in equality, especially legally, including the right to vote (legal factor), the increase in educational opportunities (social factor) meant that women chose to educate themselves before starting a family, the increase in work opportunities with laws banning unequal pay and sex discrimination (social/legal factor)and changing attitudes in society meant that it was socially acceptable for women to be employed whereas traditionally the wife would be the housewife and the husband would be the breadwinner and would financially support his family.
Because of this, two-thirds of the patients seen on that day had multiple comorbidities possibly due to lack of preventative care. The report from the GADCH states that individuals without health insurance lag behind the insured population on many dimensions including having decreased rates of preventative care leading to multiple comorbidities resulting in fair to poor health (2007). When this happens, there are more sick days (usually without pay) resulting into lower income for this population that is already struggling to make ends meet. This impacts the entire region’s productivity leading into a cascading effect for rural areas (GADCH,
Disparities in health care is an unequal burden in illness and its rate of mortality experienced by minority group when compared with the dominant group (Baldwin, D. 2003). There are causes of health disparities which includes poor education, inadequate financial resources, and minority health behavior and environmental factors. The most common health disparities that have been reported are CVD, DM and Cancers. Research indicated that the minority rates of CVD are common in African American and breast cancer is high in Africa American women than in white population. HIV/AIDS is more than seven times higher in African American than White.
Indigenous people in Australia have higher mortality rates than non-Indigenous Australians, poorer health, lower housing standards, lower employment rates, and lower standards of education. The Indigenous life expectancy is far below the Australian average and the age is lowered again by the amount of disease amongst Aboriginal people, which is more often than not caused by socioeconomic disadvantage (Pink and Allbon, 2005). For the period of 1996–2001, the life expectancy at birth for Indigenous males was estimated at 59 years and 65 years for Indigenous females. The life expectancy for Non-Indigenous Australians was 77 years for males and 82 years for Non-Indigenous females (Trewin and Madden, 2008). In 2007 The Australian Bureau of Statistics reported the most chronic conditions among Aboriginal people were: diabetes, cardiovascular disease and kidney disease, with each of which being a preventative disease, delayed or mitigated.
Five population groups are typically underserved. They are those with low income, the disabled, geographically isolated people, those with limited literacy, and residents of long term facilities. Patients with family incomes below 200% of the federal poverty line account for the largest group of underserved individuals. Patients with medical disabilities or chronic illnesses have difficulty traveling out of their homes, and consequently have trouble finding care. Patients residing in an isolated area will have a harder time finding medical help.