Social Inequality In Health Care

Question 0

Social explanation

Answer 0

A persons health determines their social mobility. So better health means greater mobility.
Women who are taller and in better health marry into higher social classes. Dependant on health at marriage, not the womans social class herself though.

Question 1

4 explanations for social class differences in health care (black report)

Answer 1

Natural/social explanation
Cultural/behavioural
Materialistic
Artefact

Question 2

Cultural explanation

Answer 2

Gradients in healthcare are the result of social class differences. 
Social class differences affect smoking, alcohol, junk food, preventative health measures (vaccines, contraception) 
Favoured by hcp.

Question 3

Materialistic explanation

Answer 3

Concerned with effects of social structure on health.
Encompass factors like income and wealth distribution, poverty, access to education, working conditions, diet and housing conditions.

Question 4

Artefact explanation

Answer 4

Both health and class are artefacts and the observed relationship is of little significance.
Pattern of health inequality reflection of changing trends (decline of traditional working types, less people in lower working classes)