Question

From your own experience, in your home country, community, even family, describe any health inequities that you have witnessed or experienced firsthand. What are the social problems that, from your experience, contribute to these inequities? What should be done to help improve these issues?

Answer 1

HEALTH INEQUITIES: refers to avoidable and unfair differences arising from poor governance, corruption or cultural exclusion giving rise to avoidable deaths and diseases. Health inequities are systemic differences in the health status of different population groups. These inequities have significant social and economic costs both to individuals and societies.

SOCIAL INEQUITY: The social determinants of health in poverty describes the factors that affects impoverished population's health and health inequality. The factors that includes inequities in health condition includes living conditions, age, gender, work environment and other social factors. Health expenditures are responsible for population falling into poverty. Poverty has many material deprivation of food, shelter, sanitation and safe drinking water,social exclusion, lack of education, unemployment and low income. The other factors that has been linked to many health conditions includes increased risk of chronic disease, injury, stress, anxiety, depression and premature death. To improve the health status related to poverty a) increase the average per capita income growth b) improve the health goals to reduce infant mortality rates c) provide safe drinking and improve the sanitation facilities.