Question

Researching the issue of failing healthcare, develop a list of past as well as contemporary healthcare inequalities and consider how you agree/disagree. Provide support to your arguments. In the past, what has been done to help alleviate this social problem? What are some effective modern day solutions being proposed? Explain why they are effective.

Answer 1

The word health inequality generally relates to variations in individuals ' or groups ' health Any measurable health element that differs across people or may be called health inequality according to socially appropriate groupings. Any moral judgment as to whether observed variations are reasonable or fair is absent from the definition of health inequality.

The word health inequality can portray racial / ethnic disparities in U.S. infant mortality rates, which are almost three times greater for non-Hispanic blacks versus whites, as well as the fact that individuals in their 20s experience better health than those in their 60s. Of these two instances, a health inequity would also be regarded only the difference in infant mortality. Differences in health between those in their 20s and 60s may be regarded inequalities in health, but not inequalities in health.Health differences based on age are largely unavoidable, and it is difficult to argue that the health differences between younger and older people are unjust, since older people were once younger people and younger people, with some luck, will someday become old.

On the other side, differences in infant mortality rates among U.S. racial / ethnic groups are partly due to preventable variations in education and access to health and prenatal care. Differences in health results across racial / ethnic groups could be aggressively avoided unlike the instance of age-related health variations. For instance, policies and programs that enhance access for underserved U.S. racial / ethnic groups to health and prenatal care could decrease unjust distinctions in results for infant health.

Progress in health equity strategies at the national and regional levels has been made by countries such as France, Portugal, Poland, and Germany. On the other hand, Spain, Italy, and Belgium have a variable situation depending on the region. Local strategic partnerships are not only bringing together the health and regeneration agendas, but also bringing the democratic decision-making structures of local authorities together with different models in business and health organisations. Critical to such a view of the local system is a belief that devolution and democratisation are fundamental to establishing genuine relationships with local people, which could allow effective solutions to complex problems to be explored. Again, such a view of the local system based on horizontal or lateral linkages and networks is at odds with a system of policy and implementation that is vertically organised in hierarchies.