Alot of studies into health inequalities rely on morality, death, and morbidity, illness, data. The results are usually presented in rates as this is less crude and it creates a more meaningful study. Poorer areas will only have small corner shops as large supermarkets won't build in areas that won't be able to afford the upkeep of the shop. This will mean there are more little corner shops with higher prices just because the shopkeepers know that they can charge higher as the community prefer not to travel to get their weekly shopping. The conditions people live in contribute to the health of a person.
P1 * People in lower socioeconomic groups have less opportunities People in lower socio-economic groups do not have as much education as the upper class. It is also unlikely they will have private healthcare and lower socioeconomic groups are not likely to have as good quality food as the people higher up. This is because healthy food with better quality tends to be more expensive. Lower socioeconomic groups are also less likely to have as much leisure activities. This is because they have not got much money and leisure activities cost a lot.
The statics show that more money is put into public education in the wealthier areas. These tend to be white neighborhoods. Incomes are higher thus house prices are higher thus taxes are higher and the money put into education is higher. Latinos and Black families tend to be larger and rely on less income than those earned by White families. Latinos and Black works tend to have to work more than one job to make ends meet.
It is mainly undertaken in Western, individualistic cultures. However, such a criticism might in turn be criticised, because it forgets that it is in these cultures that obesity is most prevalent. Obesity is often linked to factors existing more in these countries, such as availability of high-fat foods and more indoor activities. As opposed to other kinds of eating behaviour research, criticisms of cultural bias in obesity research is much less severe because obesity is, for the most part, culturally specific. However, what cultural differences do exist hasn’t been explored sufficiently.
At the risk of oversimplification, it seems that from an aetiological/genetic standpoint, human obesity appears less a metabolic than a neuro-behavioural disease. But the precise affect of our genes on weight and weigh gain is difficult to determine. For example, our eating habits and lifestyle factors are largely conditioned by family environment. “So even though a child with two overweight parents is estimated to have a 70
Despite the fact that girls do better than boys at school, boys have higher expectations and higher self esteem than girls, a gap that continues with each year of schooling. Does this finding conform with your own experience? How would you explain this? 4. Make up two lists—what women can do to prevent rape and what men can do.
Question 11 Consider the hypothesis There is a correlation between self-esteem and eatmg disorders. Feople with low self-esteem are more lik. J to have eating disorders because they tend to eat less healthy than people with high self-esteem. Letting >th.> represent the average "healthy" eating pattern ofpeople with high self-esteem and Il,s the average "healthy" eating pattern of people with low self-esteem, the above hypothesis states that - - - - -. 1.
The children of certain circumstances are even subject to easier treatment and diagnosis of ADHD if they live in a poor community because it is cheaper and easier to change a child then the learning environment. It has been shown that the conditions of poverty are ripe to lead children into a substantially higher risk category for behavioral disorders. Race merely plays a role in identifying at risk children because African Americans and Hispanics are three times more likely to live in poverty than their white counterparts. Education, special focus and sometimes when necessary treatment is vital to reversing this trend of poverty as these disorders have an
Also, they would claim that once the child has been born they are more likely to be healthy because smaller families mean that living conditions have improved. Nevertheless, conflict sociologists have the view that due to dramatic class inequalities poor mothers are more likely to have low birth weight babies possibly because of poor diet and/or smoking through pregnancy. It has been proven that low weight babies are the most likely to have behavioural and/or educational problems, sociologists such as Marxists would argue that these children have been oppressed by their parents because it is not their fault that they are ‘problem’
However, despite the studies in advertising that have shown a positive effect on brand liking and purchase intentions when featuring thin, idealized females’ body images, a contrasting literature found in psychology shows that these same images can lead to females’ self-objectification, decrease their body image dissatisfaction, which can lead to increases in eating disorders (Tiggemann, 2002). Psychologists find women’s exposure to idealized thin model images, especially those used as sex object in the ads, greatly increases women’s body image and eating disorders (Lavine, Sweeney, & Wagner, 1999). Body Image and Self Body image is conceptualized as subjective and varies between different individuals. The evolution of the psychological understanding in body image is around the concept of self. Researchers stress the relationship between self and body image, which is studied through cognitive-behavioral approach.