(3) Inequalities in Health Flashcards
Suggest three different categories which we can classify people in regard to their access to healthcare.
- Socioeconomic status
- Gender
- Ethnicity
What is disability free life expectancy?
Amount of life time living without suffering from a disability
What is the Black report from 1980? What does it suggest (4)?
A report giving 4 explanations of how inequalities in health occur.
- Artefact Explanation
- Social Selection Explanation
- Behaviour and Culture Explanation
- Materialism Explanation
Discuss the Black report with reference to its explanation of how artefact collection relates to inequality.
Inequalities are due to the ways statistics are collected
Discuss the Black report with reference to its explanation of how social selection relates to inequality.
Poorer health leading to lower socioeconomic status instead of the other way round
Discuss the Black report with reference to its explanation of how behaviour and culture relate to inequality.
People at lower socioeconomic groups tend to engage more unhealthy behaviours
How might we classify people by socioeconomic status (4)? Suggest some ways we used to measure the classifications.
- Income e.g. households, car ownerships
- Education e.g. levels, degrees
- Profession e.g. Registrar General Scheme, National Statistic Socio-Economic Classification
- Townsend Deprivation e.g. Census data
Suggest reasons why individuals at lower socioeconomic status are more likely to have poor health (5).
- Tend to have negative definition of health therefore don’t take actions unless symptoms are seen
- Normalise illness
- Less able to access and integrate health services
- More likely to engage unhealthy behaviours
- Use services that have lower quality
Discuss the Black report with reference to its explanation of how materialism relates to inequality (2).
- Differential accesses to material resources
- Lack of choice in exposure to there factors and ACCUMULATED throughout lifetime
