SOCIOLOGY: HEALTH AND INEQUALITY For our society to develop an understanding of health and how to improve it, we first have to define health and what it is to be healthy. There are many factors that influence our definition of health, the four main ones that influence lay definitions are age, culture, gender and social class. There are also different models of health that professionals use when deciding whether someone is healthy or not. In the western world we use the biomedical model, which scientifically measures someone’s health to decide whether illness is present. Though in other cultures the body and mind co-exist, and an understanding of the body and mental state are looked at together.
Besides state and federal regulations new companies are developed with new policies making it much harder for just anyone to open up a facility. Not only do they need to be approve but adding employees whether physicians or assistants must be an attractions to keep any other competition on the low. Due to so many restrictions helps keep the opposition on the low side. In the health care filed the bargaining power of buyers is also very narrow and restricted. The economy has no control over humanity, the reason for this will be since diseases, illness and injuries occur during any giving time.
Programs are needed to bring the people out to obtain better healthcare in rural areas but again the disparities they face are a stopping force. Because of this many interventionists fail to see the Return on Investment. Often more time, effort, finances and energy is put into providing quality healthcare in these areas. It is hard for the interventionists to see there ROI in the beginning. As the article stated the ROI is often seen many years later, being focused on certain health issues.
Courchane conveyed in the opening of the article that America is in an economic downturn. She quoted the vice president of nursing at John Hopkins, Karen Haller, stating that “When the economy is up the nursing supply goes down and when the economy tanks the supply goes back up” (as cited in Courchane, 2011). In the article, she states that the nursing shortage temporally improved due to the economy in the early part of the 21st century. She believes legislature seen this as lull in the need for nurses, so they pulled back on school funding. As a result, nursing programs have cut educators and the amount of applicants they accept
The Right to Health Care notes that the United States is one of the few, if not, only, developed nation in the world that does not guarantee health coverage for its citizens. (The right to heath care) If Americans had free healthcare it would decrease poverty, preserve lives, and help create a healthier country. To begin, health in the United States is very strongly correlated to income. One way to reduce poverty is to alleviate healthcare as an expense. Many people live with sickness and illnesses today, because they can’t afford medical bills.
This mother is blaming Alumina for her daughters’ condition. This woman has made public threats to Alumina on that basis that even though their factor emissions are within EPA tolerances, they still have a responsibility for the well being of their neighborhood. One of the things a large company like Alumina must do is conform to EPA rulings. The EPA, or Environmental Protection Agency, is a federal agency which has set up standards that it believes to be within the safety limits so that people do not get hurt by either living nearby, or drinking from a water source that has come into contact with the plant emissions. In this scenario, Alumina has had plant waste going into the local lake.
This includes securing medical professionals, improving transport and coming up with new facilities. Compared to the national health status, it is safe to say that the standards in Rio Arriba are below standard. This is due to the fact that other states are well supplied with healthcare facilities, starting from good modes of transport to well scattered health centers, thus offering services to different regions. This serves as a clear indication that there is a need to ensure health standards in Rio Arriba are improved, at least to attain national standards in the near future (New Mexico Selected Health Statistics Annual Report,
Current Health Promotion Pamphlet Paper Mary Penny-Johnson Developing and Evaluating Educational Programs/ Nur 588 Jennie Pattison Current Health Promotion Pamphlet Health promotion and disease prevention are an important role of nurses, physicians, and health organizations. Patients that are active participants in their own health care understand their responsibility in managing their care. Additionally, health promotion decreases hospital stays and may prevent disease related complications. In 2006 health care related spending exceed two-trillion dollars in the United States (Jadelhack, 2012). A huge amount of money is saved by promoting health and educating the public on preventable health problems (Goetzel, 2009).
There are abortion, reproductive, cancer of the cervix, complication of pregnancy, heart disease that intrigue developing women policies. In the case of women health the federal government plays a role in improving the health of women through out nation. There are effective programs that assist women statewide. In the past little attention has been given to women health issues, which has negatively impacted women health. Women access healthcare services more than men do to reproduction, which causes policy to stem from.
The last thing you want to do is penalize the children. Whatever is the correct answer, measures need to be put in place to ensure our children receive the medical treatment they deserve, while at the same time reduce spending. Spending on the Federal Government Health care programs in 2009 was 28.1% of the GDP and in 2010 was 24.4% of the GDP. Reductions we slight between 2009 and 2010, but much more needs to be done to reduce the spending on these programs to see a significant reduction in the National Debt segment of Federal Government health Care